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The blog of The New York Review Children's Collection. This blog contains posts from both the children's and adult's classics series.
1. "Except that it robs you of who you are, / What can you say about speech?," a poem by Kabir

The most recent issue of The New York Review of Books offers a preview of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's translations of selected Kabir poems.

Except that it robs you of who you are,
What can you say about speech?
Inconceivable to live without
And impossible to live with,
[continue]

Seven additional poems from this volume appear in the March 2011 edition of Poetry magazine. You can read them at the Poetry Foundation's website.

Kabir cover
Songs of Kabir
preface by Wendy Doniger
selected and translated from the Hindi by
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

cover image by Dayanita Singh, from Dream Villa

 

 

 

 

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