Kavita: Search for Transcendence - Tapa blanda

Adorned with the jewels of Eastern philosophy and eloquent Sanskrit, one woman’s story of her quest for life’s meaning unfolds like a poetic story without a script. Her lyrical prose charts a journey from youthful hope to the possibility of wisdom— and even transcendence... Kavita is a novella, a word, a mood, a concept that stems from the Italian Renaissance period. A novella is short, uncomplicated, with no sub-plots, and often intended to be read in one sitting. It explains little, but takes the reader by the hand through a brief story more concerned with personal and emotional development than with any bigger picture or grand-scheme depths. It lounges, too, in more luxuriant descriptions than are found in their big sisters: short stories and small books. Kavita is a Sanskrit word meaning “poetry,” and this novella is a story that unfolds through often raw, personal poems, into the world the author now inhabits and which sings to her in poetic beauty daily.

Braja Sorensen is a poet, photographer, bhakti-yogini, cook, and cow lover, hailing from the beaches of Australia but living on the banks of the sacred Ganges River in Mayapur, West Bengal, since the turn of the century. She is the author of Lost & Found in India (Hay House International, 2013), Yoga in the Gita (2016, Dragonfly Press), her first novella, Short Lives: Growing Up to Die (2016, Alankara Books), and Mad & Divine: Collected Writings (2015). She has other published works in the Vaishnava genre: 18 Days: Sri Panca-tattva’s Mayapur-lila (2004, Alankara Books), India & Beyond: Plane Reading for Part-time Babajis (2012, Alankara Books), and worked for some years on Nava-vraja-mahima (Lal Publishing, 2013) penned by Sivarama Swami, a nine-volume treatise on the sacred land of India through the Vaishnava perspective of pastime, pilgrimage, and philosophy. Her first poetry book, Tryst: Ghazals of Love, is due in late 2016, along with her first fiction novel, Of Noble Blood. Kavita: Search for Transcendence is her first poetry novella. Find her books at amazon.com/author/brajasorensen