{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlood, Gavin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGavin Flood\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion and Academic Director of the Centre for Hindu Studies at Oxford University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAn Introduction to Hinduism\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion\u003c\/em\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":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631182254354,"sku":"9780393345131","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27efdebb-1d40-4b25-92c0-32fe001a37ee.jpg?v=1732766018","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bhagavad-gita-9780393345131","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}