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  title info:
    title: Singing to the goddess
    sub title: poems to Kālī and Umā from Bengal
  name:
    name part: McDermott, Rachel Fell.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: discography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Devotional poetry
  genre: Poetry
  genre: Translations
  genre: Devotional poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
  abstract: This collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems were written from the early-18th century up to the contemporary period. They represent the Bengali tradition of goddess worship (Saktism).
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Pathways to the Sakta Poetry: Sources, Precedents, and Influences -- Poets for the Goddess -- Family Resemblances: Sakta Padavali as Bhakti Poetry -- Challenges and Choices in Designing an Anthology -- Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Word Definition -- Poems -- Kali among the Corpses: Poems of Battle -- Cosmic Goddess of Transformation -- Magician's Daughter and Her Playful Deceptions -- "What Kind of Mother Are You?" Cries of Complaint -- Petitioning the Compassionate -- "Oh My Mind!": Instructing the Self -- Prioritizing Paths: Tantra, Devotion, and Ritual -- Experience of Kundalini Yoga -- In Defiance of Death -- Adoring the Daughter: Agamani and Vijaya Poems for Uma.
  note: Rachel Fell McDermott.
  note: Includes discography (pages 181-182) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Hindu deity)
      name part: Kālī
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Hindu deity)
      name part: Parvati
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Hindu deity)
      name part: Parvati
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Hindu deity)
      name part: Kālī
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Göttin
      name part: Kali
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pārvatī
  subject:
    topic: Devotional poetry, Bengali
    genre: Translations into English
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL
    topic: Special Interest
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Devotional poetry, Bengali
  subject:
    topic: Lyrik
  subject:
    topic: Anthologie
  subject:
    topic: Shakti
  subject:
    geographic: Bengali
  classification: PK1714.5.E5 M337 2001eo
  classification: 891.4/4104083829452114
  classification: 18.65
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Singing to the goddess
    name:
      name part: McDermott, Rachel Fell.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
    identifier: (DLC) 99088189
    identifier: (OCoLC)43083403
  identifier: 0195134346
  identifier: 9780195134346
  identifier: 1423757610
  identifier: 9781423757610
  identifier: 0195134338
  identifier: 9780195134339
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MEAUC
    record creation date: 040408
    record change date: 20260318171830.3
    record identifier: in00005701266
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng