Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir

**Now in paperback, the journey of a great Hindustani classical vocalist's search for the voice of emptiness.** Here, two men, five centuries apart, make contact with each other through poetry, music, and performance. Kumar Gandharva, the great twentieth-century Hindustani classical vocalist, sings Kabir, the great fifteenth-century poet. Kabir composed poetry that evoked a space called *nirgun* or *shunya*-something without qualities or boundaries, empty-which challenged listeners to know it and to know themselves. Kumar Gandharva, drawn to Kabir and other poets of the nirgun experience, seeks the voice that can actually sing emptiness. *Singing Emptiness* includes a substantial introductory essay, bilingual texts of 30 songs, and contributions by two renowned Indian writers, U. R. Ananthamurthy and Ashok Vajpeyi.