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Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry from India »

Authors: Velcheru Narayana Rao, Velceru Narayanaravu
ISBN-13: 9780299177041, ISBN-10: 0299177041
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Velcheru Narayana Rao

Book Synopsis

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