Blue Like My Beloved

A searing book of ecstatic poems by one of India’s most treasured poet-saints

Some people praise me, some talk trash. I just sing about god.

My road is the road where the saints walk, and I’m taking it.

—Mirabai

The sixteenth-century poet and saint Mirabai has long been an iconic figure in India. Tagore famously named his daughter after her and praised her as a figure of female liberation; Gandhi referenced her in speeches on nonviolence and anti-colonialism—her songs were sung in his ashrams....