Roads of Bhakti Poetry

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Roads of Bhakti Poetry
Speaker: Dr Andrew Schelling, Jack Kerouac School, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

Chair: Vidya Rao, scholar and singer

A translator from Sanskrit, Pali and Hindi and author of six volumes of poetry indebted to studies in ecology and ethnopoetics, the speaker has edited The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011), and describes how Bhakti is "˜salted' with an intensity that requires intellectual effort and a great deal of honest probing to get close to, how efforts to break free of social constraint took hundreds of forms across India and the resonances this literature evokes for audiences far removed in time and place