Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry
devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted
translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a
new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in
a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by
seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five
anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and
seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that
guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to
read and appreciate the poems in English. Erotic Poems from the
Sanskrit seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through
the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection
when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and
illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and
separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of
the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent
scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose
resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained.
Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries
despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and
passionately to a wide range of human experience. Erotic Poems from
the Sanskrit offers English-speaking readers an enticing and
tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable
poetic tradition.
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