Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair

Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess

Author: Rāmaprasāda Sena
ISBN: 9780934252942

These poems written in the eighteenth-century in Bengal, express his passionate devotion for the praise of the Great Mother Goddess -- primarily in her manifestation as Kali, the dark goddess, guardian of the cycles of birth and death. His work emerges from s bhakti-or devotional-tradition, which revolted against the Brahman -- dominated Hindu orthodoxy of the time. These poems traverse a spectrum of moods -- from the wild despair of an abandoned child to the intoxicated hilarity of a man drunk with the Goddess's love.

Publisher: Hohm Press
Publish Date: 1982

Subjects: Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, Religion / Eastern

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