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

by Velcheru Narayana Rao

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.

Genres: Poetry

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Velcheru Narayana Rao is Visiting Distinguished Professor of South Asian Studies at Emory University.