Uncollected Poems And Prose

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

• ISBN13: 9780195672916
• ISBN10: 0195672917
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized 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

Preface
Invisible bodies	p. 3
1951	p. 4
Eagle and butterfly	p. 5
Twenty-four senses	p. 6
Farewells	p. 7
Figures of disfigurement	p. 9
All night	p. 10
Many a slip	p. 11
Children, dreams, theorems	p. 12
However	p. 13
Returning	p. 14
Anchors	p. 15
On Julia	p. 16
Postmortem	p. 17
Backstreet visit	p. 19
Smells	p. 20
Love 10	p. 21
Time changes	p. 22
Museum	p. 23
A rationalist abroad	p. 24
Daily drivel : a monologue	p. 25
Lying	p. 26
Waiting	p. 28
Bluebottles	p. 29
Dances remember dancers	p. 30
Suddenly	p. 31
Surviving	p. 32
Becoming	p. 33
Computers eat fingertips	p. 34
He to me or me to him	p. 35
Renoir at eighty	p. 37
Oranges	p. 38
Two interviews
Chirantan Kulshrestha and AKR	p. 41
A. L. Becker, Keith Taylor, and AKR	p. 52
The ring of memory : remembering and forgetting in Indian literature	p. 83
For Barbara Miller	p. 101
A note on A. K. Ramanujan's Uncollected poems	p. 104
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