Mala of Love ― 108 Luminous Poems

Is there a love beyond sentiment and the trappings of romance? A feeling that doesn’t get its power from the back and forth of longing and denial, oneness and otherness, bliss and the blues? If so, can words capture it? The search for such words led editors Nathwani and Vogt through hundreds of diverse voices. They sought original writings or first translations and ultimately assembled a tribute to the love that is spiritual and corporeal, beyond words and begging to be described, and simultaneously directed at a beloved and at the very idea of love. Superbly researched, collected, and arranged, this is a gift to anyone loved, anyone who loves to read, and to the lover within us all.

Ravi Nathwani teaches at Tufts University. He also teaches Wisdom Yoga and Buddhist meditation at JFK University and lectures on the Bhagavad Gita, consciousness, and Vedanta.

Kate Vogt teaches both classical Yoga and Yoga philosophy privately in San Francisco and Marin County, California, and serves as an instructor of Yoga philosophy at the College of Marin Extension.