Naked Song

Beautiful transporting little book of poetry! Lalla, like so many female mystics from Japan, Persia, India, and everywhere, has been buried in history, despite her words still falling from the lips of modern-day Kashmiris. More, please! Where are the female translators, there is work to do! There is Hafiz and Rumi, but also Mira bai and Lalla....there is Basho and Ikku and also Fudaka Chiyo-ni and Ono no Komachi....it is sad that the female poets are buried, we loose so much richness, and we loose the female perspective of the human experience if we do not read these female masters.

In Naked Song, translator Coleman Barks does a stellar job capturing the essence of Lala's poetry. It is both basic and profound. It is both tranparent and limitless in its keen depth. Naked Song is just that...exposed, a life and soul laid bare. An open invitation for every fellow soujourner to remove their own veils and be striped of those things that hide us from our selves.

Naked Song Sadness and gladness; sadness there are only two reviews of this book as I write, the most recent 2001; GLADNESS that Lalla is being passed on to any and all who may be brightened by the Light of this beautiful woman whose great loving seeps and shines through these poems. Thanks to all who have made it possible to meet her......

Beautiful poems, mystic truths that can be lived. I think of it as in the tradition of direct-realization Tantra.

Great little book! Has many inspirational text that I enjoy ;)!

Very good book, some of the best poems ever.

Beautiful and thought provoking

Not exactly the book I was expecting. A different kind of translations.

Lalla was a spiritual giant of the 14th century AD, in the region north of India which is the source of the greatest meditative traditions of the world. She was a Kashmiri Shaivite and an inspiration to Sufis. Her writing is both intimate and spacious; in one poem she feels ambivalent towards the act of writing, but she continues anyway. The poems, like those of Rumi, are short but very dense in meaning. Although we cannot appreciate the wordplay of the Kashmiri originals, Coleman Barks' versions pay respect to English poetic style and also evoke the simplicity and intensity of Lalla's songs. The book title refers to the tradition which has Lalla going naked in her youth, after her enlightenment. This is one of the many fascinating stories about her which are apparently still current in Kashmir, Assam, Pakistan and India. Whether or not this one is true, the poems give the feeling that they are sung from an open heart, without dissembling or disguise, and they are surpassingly lovely. The physical book is small and easy to carry, inexpensive to replace if lost or damaged.

Beautifully handled by the editor. Lalla is an inspiration to read

Naked Song: Poems What a lady! Poetic, deep and inspiring! Just do the same in your way again and again!

Just as advertised. Good seller in all ways.

good delivery beautiful poems