Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Centure Telugu Poetry from India
English speakers may read for the first time a previously hidden literature of great beauty and importance, compiled and translated by one of the foremost scholars of the literature of twentieth-century India.\ Richly appealing, sensitively and masterfully translated, surprisingly accessible, and adeptly organized, these poems from the Telugu language of southern India will find in this groundbreaking anthology the wider international readership they deserve and a place in the worldwide...
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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on Telugu NamesGuide to PronunciationA Note on the TranslationsBorn for Poetry3The Other Tongue4The Comet5The Beginning10Call of Poetry14The Buried Poem19Poetry20First Blood21Liberation22Gold27Chained30Waiting31The Palanquin32Her Eyes34In Search of Krishna35He Didn't Come Back40Blow Out the Lamp41The Farmer's Song42You in My Dream43My Love45Tryst46Is This All!47You on My Mind49You50Going out of Town51Hibiscus on the Lake52Invocation54A Letter55My Brother56An Act of Caution57Van Gogh's Ear59Author's Consent61Distance63A Suggestion65Relationships66Nothing Happened68Cold Meat70Your Chariot73The Blind Beggar74A Longing76Steps77Song of Krishna80Here Comes God86Seen from an Island in Godavari87Some People Laugh / Some People Cry91The Sound of Silence93Myth of Myself100Really?105Death of Man106Who Is Awake in the Dead of the Night?110The Vedantist112Memories114Dateline Hyderabad: 1990 December 8117Sleep119Me on the Wall122Give Me Confidence123Hades125Empty126Stupidity127Chasing Memory128The Wheels of Jagannatha133We Should Remember137Warrior, Bhaskar!139We Write142Live Walls144The Night It Rained Life147An Announcement149A Blade of Grass151A Prayer153A Bitter Poem155This Night157No Break158Wooden Horse159Generations177Raped Poem178Let's Go to Hell183Sita185Workers in Love187Sex Everywhere188Donkeys in Anantapur190This World, Poor Thing191Moon in China Bazaar192Me?194Police Report195Forces of Production197A Birth201Qaus-e Qazah202Birds Love the Net204Physical Geography206Ideal Wife207Fall209I Was One of Them213The Bat Messenger214The Wall218A Child Is Born219A Birth Postponed222Birthmark225Prayer232What Do I Want?234Black and White236Notes241A Historical After-Essay277Index325
