Love, Truth & Divine

A brand new poetry book containing a beautiful collage of poetry, spirituality and Sikh history written by US-based Amar Mann Kaur. From UK publisher Khalis House Publishing - www.KhalisHouse.com

Early praise:

The world needs Sikh wisdom. These poems deliver the magic and beauty of our ancestors' call to Oneness with sweet simplicity and infinite love.

-Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of See No Stranger and Sage Warrior

This is an extraordinary and invaluable poetic constellation of Sikh history. Critical events from the Sikh past are arrestingly voiced by roadways, fruit trees, rivers, pools, bazars, bricks… The foundational moment of Guru Nanak’s divine epiphany is told by the rejoicing waters of River Bein as they translucently embrace the Guru’s body; the horrific martyrdom of the tenth Guru’s young sons is told by the mourning Sirhind bricks as they are being forced to go up higher and higher, tighter and tighter to entomb the six- and nine-year-old tender bodies! Wondrously, provocatively, poignantly, Amar Mann Kaur makes us experience the Sikh past to imagine anew. Her thirty-one poems echo the thirty-one raga structure of the Sikh scripture, just as her beautifully tuned verses echo the scriptural rhythms. While making the past viscerally present for her readers, Kaur challenges us to question our contemporary reality. Why is Guru Tegh Bahadur’s martyrdom day not a National day? so the bustling Chandni Chowk asks. Indeed, poet Amar Mann Kaur has singularly succeeded: “Nanak did not only write and sing love songs. He made poets, he set souls aflame…”

-Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Crawford Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Colby College. Leading Scholar in Sikh Studies.

The words in this collection are a rendezvous between the Divine & its beautiful creation. Join them for a yearnful spiritual ride.

- Vishavjit Singh is an artist, storyteller, creator of Sikhtoons.com and Oscar qualified animated short American Sikh.