Poems and a Novella"These four works add yet another dimension to the contribution A. K. Ramanujan has made to Indian and American literature. The books of poems - No Lotus in the Navel, And Other Poems, and Kuntobille - are written in an extraordinary variety of modes and moods. Ramanujan, the poet, roams freely and widely in Kannada, the language of his childhood. He quarrels with himself, with his traditional roots, and his adopted country, giving us memorable poems such as: O Lord, Whether You Exist; A King of Soliloquies, and The River."--BOOK JACKET. |
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