num_pages: 360
description: 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.
language: English
title: Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India
titlecomplete: Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 6
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press