Mother of The Universe

Mother of the Universe presents the visionary hymns of Ramprasad Sen from eighteenth- century Bengal. Selected from English translations by Jadunath Siinha of the two hundred and fifty extant songs of Ramprasad, these one hundred twenty-six expanded versions have gradually unfolded over the last twelve years. These contemplative versions represent an articulated literary form, designed not to be sung but recited aloud, thereby retaining a sense of the oral tradition which these poems represent. Rather than using scholarly footnotes, the expanded poems themselves contain commentary.