Hibiscus on the Lake

20th Century Telugu Poetry from India

By: Velcheru Narayana Rao

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Paperback | 1 October 2005

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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 vernacular literature.

Velcheru Narayana Rao is an ideal guide for the English-language reader's timely introduction to this long and vigorous literary tradition and to the generously varied poets whose accomplished, exotic, enigmatic voices speak to us here at last in the boundless tradition of all great poetry.

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"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

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Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Telugu Names
Guide to Pronunciation
A Note on the Translations
Born for Poetry	p. 3
The Other Tongue	p. 4
The Comet	p. 5
The Beginning	p. 10
Call of Poetry	p. 14
The Buried Poem	p. 19
Poetry	p. 20
First Blood	p. 21
Liberation	p. 22
Gold	p. 27
Chained	p. 30
Waiting	p. 31
The Palanquin	p. 32
Her Eyes	p. 34
In Search of Krishna	p. 35
He Didn't Come Back	p. 40
Blow Out the Lamp	p. 41
The Farmer's Song	p. 42
You in My Dream	p. 43
My Love	p. 45
Tryst	p. 46
Is This All!	p. 47
You on My Mind	p. 49
You	p. 50
Going out of Town	p. 51
Hibiscus on the Lake	p. 52
Invocation	p. 54
A Letter	p. 55
My Brother	p. 56
An Act of Caution	p. 57
Van Gogh's Ear	p. 59
Author's Consent	p. 61
Distance	p. 63
A Suggestion	p. 65
Relationships	p. 66
Nothing Happened	p. 68
Cold Meat	p. 70
Your Chariot	p. 73
The Blind Beggar	p. 74
A Longing	p. 76
Steps	p. 77
Song of Krishna	p. 80
Here Comes God	p. 86
Seen from an Island in Godavari	p. 87
Some People Laugh / Some People Cry	p. 91
The Sound of Silence	p. 93
Myth of Myself	p. 100
Really?	p. 105
Death of Man	p. 106
Who Is Awake in the Dead of the Night?	p. 110
The Vedantist	p. 112
Memories	p. 114
Dateline Hyderabad: 1990 December 8	p. 117
Sleep	p. 119
Me on the Wall	p. 122
Give Me Confidence	p. 123
Hades	p. 125
Empty	p. 126
Stupidity	p. 127
Chasing Memory	p. 128
The Wheels of Jagannatha	p. 133
We Should Remember	p. 137
Warrior, Bhaskar!	p. 139
We Write	p. 142
Live Walls	p. 144
The Night It Rained Life	p. 147
An Announcement	p. 149
A Blade of Grass	p. 151
A Prayer	p. 153
A Bitter Poem	p. 155
This Night	p. 157
No Break	p. 158
Wooden Horse	p. 159
Generations	p. 177
Raped Poem	p. 178
Let's Go to Hell	p. 183
Sita	p. 185
Workers in Love	p. 187
Sex Everywhere	p. 188
Donkeys in Anantapur	p. 190
This World, Poor Thing	p. 191
Moon in China Bazaar	p. 192
Me?	p. 194
Police Report	p. 195
Forces of Production	p. 197
A Birth	p. 201
Qaus-e Qazah	p. 202
Birds Love the Net	p. 204
Physical Geography	p. 206
Ideal Wife	p. 207
Fall	p. 209
I Was One of Them	p. 213
The Bat Messenger	p. 214
The Wall	p. 218
A Child Is Born	p. 219
A Birth Postponed	p. 222
Birthmark	p. 225
Prayer	p. 232
What Do I Want?	p. 234
Black and White	p. 236
Notes	p. 241
A Historical After-Essay	p. 277
Index	p. 325
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