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| Title: | Fire's Goal
: Poems from the Hindu Year |
| Author: | Laurie Patton; Foreword by Narendra Panjwani |
| ISBN: | 1883991498 : 9781883991494 |
| Illustrations: | colour illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 175x230mm |
| Pages: | 70 |
| Weight: | .228 Kg. |
| Published: | Caveat Press (White Cloud Press) - October 2003 |
| List Price: | 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Poetry & poets: Hinduism |
These poems reflect a year of journeys to sacred river sources in India. Laurie Patton’s poems were written after a decade of writing and reading in interpretation of India’s most sacred Sanskrit compositions -- the Veda. The book’s first half, "Festivals", follows the main festivals of a Hindu year. Each poem is written in the voice of a bhakta, or devotee, as he or she performs rituals of devotion -- whether it be floating a flame down the river at Diwali or listening to the bell at a Ganesh temple at Ganeshotsav. The second half of the book, "Crossings" refers to the traditional term tirtha, or holy place. In India, a tirtha is a place where a god crossed over to be on earth. "Crossings" employs the images of Sanskrit learning to think about ordinary moments in contemporary life -- a lost lover, running with dogs, an encounter with a spiderweb, what a widow might say about her broken bangles.
