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Title

Hibiscus on the lake : twentieth-century Telugu poetry from India / edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao.

Publication

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Narayana Rao, Velcheru, 1932-

Description

xxiii, 330 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Translations
• Biographies
• Poets, Telugu > Biography
• Telugu poetry > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

• 0299177009 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299177041 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001005496

OCLC

• 48003117
• SCSB-12341207

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library