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classical
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folk tradition
forthcoming
gandhi
hindi
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indian
krishna
mirabai
new translation
poems
premodern
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sixteenth century
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- ISBN 9780811240437
- Dimensions: 132 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2026
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Some people praise me, some talk trash. I just sing about god.
My road is the road where the saints walk, and I’m taking it.
—Mirabai
The 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 Blue Like My Beloved, 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.
Chloe Martinez is a poet, a translator, and a scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Ten Thousand Selves and the chapbook Corner Shrine, and co-editor, with Lisa Van Orman Hadley, of Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD. She is the recipient of the NEA Fellowship in Literature and the Anne Frydman Prize for her translations of Mirabai. Martinez is the assistant editor of Beloit Poetry Journal and works at Claremont McKenna College.
