{"product_id":"bhagavad-gita-9780393345131","title":"Bhagavad Gita","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new verse translation of the classic Sanskrit text combines the skills of leading Hinduist Gavin Flood with the stylistic verve of award-winning poet and translator Charles Martin. The result is a living, vivid work that avoids dull pedantry and remains true to the extraordinarily influential original. A devotional, literary, and philosophical masterpiece of unsurpassed beauty and imaginative relevance, \u003cem\u003eThe Bhagavad Gita \u003c\/em\u003ehas inspired, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, and Aldous Huxley. Its universal themes--life and death, war and peace, sacrifice--resonate in a West increasingly interested in Eastern religious experiences and the Hindu diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gavin Flood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393345131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCharles Martin\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in New York City in 1942. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The recipient of numerous awards, Martin has received the Bess Hokin Prize, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Three of his poetry collections--\u003cem\u003eSteal the Bacon \u003c\/em\u003e(1987), \u003cem\u003eWhat the Darkness Proposes \u003c\/em\u003e(1996), and \u003cem\u003eStarting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(2002)--have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ovid's \u003cem\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Gavin Flood \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":67804781314205,"sku":"9780393345131","price":28.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_c3098065-b978-4714-8603-11c6a2e3c8de.jpg?v=1794382388","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/bhagavad-gita-9780393345131","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}