Varavara Rao A Life In Poetry

by Kandasamy, Meena; Rao, Varavara; Venugopal, N.

• ISBN13: 9780143463160
• ISBN10: 0143463160
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-09-20
• Publisher: Vintage Books

Summary

Varavara Rao: A Life in Poetry is the first-ever collection in English of poems by the Telugu poet, selected and translated from sixteen books that he has published. Having begun to write poetry in his early teens, Varavara Rao, now in his early eighties, continues to be a doyen of Telugu modern poets. He was a consistent comrade-in-letters to all the social movements from the 1960s to the 2010s, and this volume is a capsule of momentous social history captured in his poetic imagination. he poems in the collection offer an artistic blend of tender response and thoughtful reaction to social realities, as well as an explosion of powerful emotions from a voice sought to be subdued. Varavara Rao's poetry, more than anything else, is an offering of solidarity to the voiceless, the underdog and the oppressed.

Author Biography

Meena Kandasamy is an anti-caste activist, poet, novelist and translator. She has written books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), as well as three novels, The Gypsy Goddess (2014), When I Hit You (2017), and Exquisite Cadavers (2019). Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize VARAVARA RAO has been a poet, literary critic, public speaker and teacher of language and literature. He is the author of seventeen collections of poetry and nineteen books of prose (including seven books of literary criticism and translation), all in Telugu. The collection of his prison letters, Captive Imagination (2010), was published by Penguin. N. VENUGOPAL is a poet, literary critic, journalist, public speaker and translator with thirty-two books, both in Telugu and English and as many in translation, to his credit. After being in mainstream journalism for more than twenty years, he started his own alternative small magazine, Veekshanam, a monthly journal of political economy and society, which has been published for the last twenty years.