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 emergence of India's literature.
Hibiscus on the Lake
Summary
This work makes accessible to English speakers a hidden literature of great beauty and importance. The poems are from the Telegu language of southern India.
Hibiscus on the Lake Summary
Hibiscus on the Lake Reviews
Entirely original, ironic, sensuous but never sexist. A small masterpiece and a precious piece of the record of good writing on this planet. - Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
About
Velcheru Narayana Rao is the Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the coeditor, with David Shulman, of A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India.
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NLS9780299177041
9780299177041
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Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-century Telugu Poetry from India by
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University of Wisconsin Press
2003-06-30
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