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Title

The cane groves of Narmada River : erotic poems from old India / translated from the Sanskrit and introduced by Andrew Schelling.

Publication

San Francisco : City Lights Books, c1998.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PK4474.A3 C36 1998	Off-site

Description

xvi, 90 p.; 18 cm.

Summary

Of the world's ancient poetry, that of classical India was the most vividly erotic -- uninhibited, tender, sad and joyous by turns. The poems sound as if they might have been written yesterday, although the period they cover ranges from roughly 200 CE until about the eleventh century. In India at this time, if you wanted to know about love in its every expression, you went to a book of poetry for instruction.
The poems are divided into two sections. The first is a selection of verse from the earliest secular anthology of Indian poetry, collected and recorded in a literary vernacular by a civilization that was rural, agricultural, and often tribal The second part consists of lyrics from the slightly later court tradition, work written in Sanskrit by a bardic lineage that made erotism its special study. Among the poets are many women who deserve to be known as the peers of Sappho, Lady Ono no Komachi, or Li Ch'ing-chao.

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ISBN

0872863468

LCCN

^^^98035974^

OCLC

39655552

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library