Results for "Ramanujan, A. K."

How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show t... Read More about When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others

Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means “rite of passage” but also “moment of recognition,” it begins when N... Read More about Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

In these translations, A.K. Ramanujan's foundational text has won the devotion of scholars and readers of rich literature for decades. This edition retains Ramanujan's careful, consistant rendering of works by nearly 500 poets, illuminating ancient stories of love and war and the culture and society... Read More about Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil (Translations from the Asian Classics)

In The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in  a series of dramatic exchanges between a shifting array of characters—the lov... Read More about The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems (NYRB Poets)