Short description
This stirring translation of song offerings makes the complete collection of 157 inspiring texts available to a broad audience for the first time.
Long description
The poetry of Tagore will delight those who made Rumi America's best-selling poet Out of Bengal and the Hindu spiritual tradition comes a Nobel prize-winning mystical poet whose time for broad, popular acceptance has come. William Butler Yeats fell in love with these poems almost a 100 years ago, the Nobel Committee honored them with their literature prize in 1913 and just recently The Utne Reader cited Tagore as one of today's most overlooked spiritual writers. This new edition is important because its lyrical translation has been made from Tagore's original Bengali and it makes the entire collection of 157 Gitanjali, or song offerings, available to a wider audience for the first time.