Poem At the Right Moment

Poem At the Right Moment

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Author: Velcheru Narayana Rao
David Shulman/
Translator: Velcheru Narayana Rao / David Shulman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 211
ISBN/UPC (if available): 019564803X

Description

This translation collects and preserves short poems from the oral tradition - called catus - that have circulated for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight into the commonplace, and their fascination with sensual experience.

Where does a poem exist? What gives it life? Who is its author? How does it convey meaning? As these universal questions about poetry in South India, and the answers will be illuminating.

A poem at the Right Moment collects and preserves short poems from the oral tradition - called catus - that have circulated for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight into the commonplace, their fascination with sensual experience. And their exploration of the connection between language and desire. Taken together the catus offer a penetrating critical vision and an understanding of the classical traditions of Telugu, Tamil and Sanskrit.

Each poem is presented in its contemporary English translation along with the Indian-language original. An intr5oduction and a concluding essay explore in detail the stories and texts that comprise the catus system.

Poetry lovers will enjoy this charming form of literature, and scholars of South Asia will find that the catus enrich their understanding of the culture.