Enter this book and you enter into Kali's terrifying and amazing world in which all of your fantasies both of power and of limitation will be exploded. Let yourself be exploded by the wild truth in these poems so you can become both sane and mad enough to do Kali's work.
Andrew Harvey, author of Turn Me to Gold: 108 Translations of Kabir, Return of the Mother
Kali's Bazaar is poetry in the ecstatic tradition of Hafiz, Rumi, and Kabir. This type of poem isn't cultivated or tidy; it's devotional and raw. The fundamental drive and message of Kalidas's poems are eternally important-they speak of love, fearlessness, and joy, and they speak about all of these things in a large voice.
Keith Belcher - Yoga International journal, Fall 2012
This collection of devotional poems, a rarity in today's world, will awaken the heart of love within any reader whatever their spiritual tradition. Lawrence Edwards, as these ecstatic poems reveal, provides a shining example of the spiritual life fully lived, able to embrace with eloquence all of life's extremes from suffering to bliss. These poems are in the tradition of the great ecstatic poets such as Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz and others. They transport the reader beyond this world of duality into unconditioned Oneness, a rare gift indeed!
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, author, Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's.
Here, gathered over many years of quest and deep experience, is a beautiful symposium of devotional poems to awaken the mind and rejoice the heart. The introduction is a powerful call to the incandescent reality of inner experience. Here are poems to savor, to guide, to bring tears and, above all, to dissolve the veil that lies between us and the Divine Presence who tells us that we live within Her Being and Her Love.
Anne Baring, British Jungian analyst and author of One Work: A Journey Toward The Self, and co-author with Andrew Harvey of The Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine.
Those on a sacred path will recognize that Kalidas (Lawrence Edwards) has made an authentic life journey and, through his poetry, is sharing his piercing insights and exalted states. His relationship to the Mother allows us to hear her voice in every sound, to see her magnificence in every sight, to feel her fiercely loving caress in every touch, and to sense the rhythm of her beating heart in our soul. Reading these poems transports and transforms the reader through delight and deep satisfaction.
Martin Lowenthal, Psychologist, Tibetan Buddhist, Founder of the Dedicated Life Institute and author of Alchemy of the Soul and Buddha and the Art of Intimacy.
In this collection, Kalidas (servant of Kali) offers us the distillation of a lifetime of spiritual seeking and devotion. Each poem glows with the iridescent spark of that sacred essence left in the alchemist's dish when all the dross has been sifted away. Yeats used the phrase "when naked to naked goes" to describe such moments, when the unadorned soul unites with the Beloved in shameless adoration. These poems allow us to observe at close hand this profound process by which the mundane substance of the material self is transmuted into the clarity of the refined being, the gold of pure spirit.
Dorothy Walters, PhD, author of numerous works including Unmasking the Rose: A Record of a Kundalini Initiation
