City of Mirrors - Songs of Lalan Sai

This is the first dedicated English translation of the songs of the Bengali poet and mystical philosopher Lalan Sai to closely follow the original Bangla text, with all of its dialectical variations, and is here produced alongside the original text. Dr. Carol Salomon used multiple written and oral texts to arrive at a meaning as close as possible to the original works.

About the author

Carol Salomon was, at the time of her death in 2009, Senior Lecturer in Bengali in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington

Saymon Zakaria is Assistant Director of the Bangla Academy. He has delivered academic lectures on language, literature, and culture at the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and the Sapientia-Hungarian University of Transylvania.

Keith E. Cantú is a doctoral student in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Summary

This is the first dedicated English translation of the songs of the Bengali poet and mystical philosopher Lalan Sai to closely follow the original Bangla text, with all of its dialectical variations, and is here produced alongside the original text. Dr. Carol Salomon used multiple written and oral texts to arrive at a meaning as close as possible to the original works.

Additional text

This posthumously published volume contains Carol Salomon's (1948-2009) annotated translation of 137 songs by Phakir ("Fakir") Lālan Sa¯&Íi (assertedly 1778-1890), purportedly the most revered Bāul practitioner of all time.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Zakaria Cantdu, Carol (TRN)/ Zakaria Salomon
• Assisted by: Keith CantDu (Editor), Keith Cantu (Editor), Keith Cantú (Editor), Saymon Zakaria (Editor), Jeanne Openshaw (Introduction), Openshaw Jeanne (Introduction), Richard Salomon (Foreword), Salomon Richard (Foreword), Carol Salomon (Translation), Salomon Carol (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780190680220
• ISBN: 978-0-19-068022-0
• No. of pages: 648
• Series: South Asia Research; South Asia Research
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, POETRY / General, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, Hinduism, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets