{"product_id":"9780811240437","title":"Blue like My Beloved","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA searing book of ecstatic poems by one of India’s most treasured poet-saints\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome people praise me, some talk trash. I just sing about god.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy road is the road where the saints walk, and I’m taking it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Mirabai \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sixteenth-century poet and saint Mirabai has long been an iconic figure in India. Tagore famously named his daughter after her and praised her as a figure of female liberation; Gandhi referenced her in speeches on nonviolence and anti-colonialism—her songs were sung in his ashrams. Today her poems continue to be sung by Bollywood singers, folk musicians, and ordinary people. In \u003cem\u003eBlue like My Beloved\u003c\/em\u003e, the poet-translator and scholar Chloe Martinez—who spent decades studying, absorbing, and translating Mirabai’s work—has compiled a selection of Mirabai’s poetry that includes her greatest hits alongside lesser-known poems. The collection spans the range of Mirabai’s moods and themes in a vibrant poetry of intimacy and visionary perception that burns with a lasting brilliance akin to that of Rumi or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43809229111357,"sku":"9780811240437","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780811240437_p0.jpg?v=1791892003","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780811240437","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}