Author: Velcheru Narayana Rao
Translator: Velcheru Narayana Rao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 345
ISBN/UPC (if available): 019562215
Description
Masterfully translated, with sensitivity to each poem's tone and texture, this anthology presents the best poetry written in Telugu over the last one hundred years.
Masterfully translated, with sensitivity to each poem’s tone and texture, this anthology presents the best poetry written in Telugu over the last one hundred years.
Full of rewarding surprises, deep meditations, high lyricism, and personal and political voices, these works unfold a vast and unknown territory, while remaining strangely familiar. Rooted in the long and vibrant Telugu literary tradition, originally intended for a specific group at a specific time, these poems are refreshingly universal—taking their rightful place in the timeless and boundless tradition of all great poetry.
Critical and biographical notes establish the contexts of the poems and give the reader a window into the lives of the poets. The Afterword presents an analytical overview of the dynamic story of twentieth century Telugu poetry.
A companion volume, ‘Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology’, edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman, covers the premodern period. Together, the two anthologies make accessible to the world for the first time a thousand year of the great literary tradition of the Telugu-speaking people of South India.
Contents
CHELLAPILLA VENKATA SASTRI
The Poems
DASU SRIRAMULU
The Other tongue
GURAJADA APPARAO
The Comet
Gold
Enough
RAYAPROLU SUBBARAO
Chained, Waiting
DEVULAPALLI KRISHNA SASTRI
The Planquin
Wanderer
Her Eyes
In Search OF Krishna
A Wish
ABBURI RAMAKRISHNA RAO
The Farmer’s Song
New Capital
A Longing
VISWANATHA SATYANARAYANA
The Blind Beggar
Your Chariot
You and I
The Beginning
Song of Krishna
KODALI SUBBARAO
A Shower of Gold
KODALI ANJABEYULU
Radha
ADIVI BAPIRAJU
Steps
NANDURI SUBBARAO
He Didn’t Come Back
Blow Out the Lamp
You in My Dream
My Love
Is This All
DUVVURI RAMIREDDY
Tryst
NORI NARASIMHA SASTRI
Defeated
JASHUVA
I was one of them
The Bat Messenger
KAVIKONDALA VENKATA RAO
You on My Mind
Workers in Love
A Letter, They Lie Hidden
CHAVALI BANGARAMMA
Hibiscus on the Lake
The Hill
Full Moon in December
My Brother
PINGALI LAKSHMIKANTAM AND KATURI VENKATESWARA RAO
On the Farm
The Stuff of Poetry
PATHABHI
Sita
Moon in China Bazaar
Whore
An Autobiography
SRI SRI
The Difference
Really?
The Other Shore
Don’t
A Bitter Poem
The Vedantist
Ah!
The Wheels of Jagannatha
Call of Poetry
Song of Victory
Some People Laugh Some people Cry
Bull in the City
Myth of Myself
SRIRANGAM NARAYANA-BABU
A Blade of Grass
Let’s Go to Hell
Sex Everywhere
Sound of Silence
Clear Throat
SISHTLA UMA-MAHESWARA RAO
Memories
KALOJI
We should Remember
TENNETI SURI
Here Comes God
DEVARAKONDA BALAGANGADHARA TILAK
War Dead
A Prayer
Police Report
You are not here But your son is
The Night it Rained Life
AJANTA
Dateline Hyderabad
Sleep
Me on the Wall
The Streets
One Sound
VARADA AND ARUDRA
This is about us
AURDRA
Death of Man
BAIRAGI
Give me Confidence
Who is awake in the dead of Night
ISMAIL
The Buried Poem
You
Squandered Stars
A Suggestion
Poetry
Seen from an Island in Godavari
The Wall
Parrots in the Tree
Donkeys in Anantapur
Van Gogh’s Ear
SIVUDU
Warrior
Bhaskar!
NAGNAMUNI
Wooden Horse
BHAIRAVAYYA
Raped Poem
VEGUNTA MOHANA PRASAD
Hades
Empty
Stupidity
First Blood
Liberation
SMILE
Nothing Happened
SIVA RADDY
We’ll Destroy
Generations
We Write
NAIRASANA KAVULU
Me? New Year?
Forces of Production
REVATI DEVI
A Birth
A Burial of Burning Love
G’bye
Going Out of Town
Invocation
Sleepers
No Break
Non-fiction
Cold Meat
Distance
This Night
The Voice
God
This World Poor Thing
JAYAPRABHA
Signature
The Lost Poem
He was a Monarch Brilliant as the Sun
Eight-petalled Lotus
Fog in My Heard
Burn This Sari
That’s the Secret
Love
That Minute
Gaze
Never
All Me
The Train Never Comes
KONDEPUDI NIRMALA
Rained Out
Birds Love the Net
MAHE JABEEN
An Act of Caution
A Love poem
I Remember
Physical Geography
Live Walls
Ideal Wife
Intimate Relationships
Fall
TRIPURANENI SRINIVAS
A Lost Memory
KHADAR MOHIUDDIN
Birthmark
AFSAR
Prayer
SHAJAHANA
Qause-e Qazah
SATISH CHANDAR
A Child is born
The Fifth Note
A Birth Postponed
MADDURI NAGESHBABU
What Do I Want?
PRASEN, VAMSIKRISHNA AND JULURU GAURISHANKAR
The State
Gaddar, and Us
MACHIRAJU SAVITHRI
Black and White
Notes
Afterword
Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry: A Very Brief History
Sources
Index