Uncollected Poems and Prose

by Ramanujan, A. K.; Daniels-Ramanujan, Molly A.; Harrison, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780195656312
• ISBN10: 0195656318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A.K. Ramanujan has been recognised as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This book brings together for the first time, poems and essays by Ramanujan, which could not be used in his lifetime. Also included are Ramanujan's conversational interviews with academics and friends, folk-tales, discussions of Shakespeare, translation and the idea of communication.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Preface	ix
Keith Harrison
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
Invisible Bodies	3	(1)
1951	4	(1)
Eagle and Butterfly	5	(1)
Twenty-four Senses	6	(1)
Farewells	7	(2)
Figures of Disfigurement	9	(1)
All Night	10	(1)
Many a Slip	11	(1)
Children, Dreams, Theorems	12	(1)
However	13	(1)
Returning	14	(1)
Anchors	15	(1)
On Julia	16	(1)
Postmortem	17	(2)
Backstreet Visit	19	(1)
Smells	20	(1)
Love 10	21	(1)
Time Changes	22	(1)
Museum	23	(1)
A Rationalist Abroad	24	(1)
Daily Drivel: a monologue	25	(1)
Lying	26	(2)
Waiting	28	(1)
Bluebottles	29	(1)
Dances Remember Dancers	30	(1)
Suddenly	31	(1)
Surviving	32	(1)
Becoming	33	(1)
Computers Eat Fingertips	34	(1)
He to Me or Me to Him	35	(2)
Renoir at Eighty	37	(1)
Oranges	38	(3)
TWO INTERVIEWS
Chirantan Kulshrestha and AKR	41	(11)
A. L. Becker, Keith Taylor, and AKR	52	(31)
UNCOLLECTED PROSE
The Ring of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Indian Literature	83	(18)
For Barbara Miller	101	(3)
A Note on A. K. Ramanujan's Uncollected Poems	104	(4)
Molly A. Daniels-Ramanujan
Index of Titles	108	(1)
Index of First Lines	109