Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; Introduction; PART ONE: THE POETS OF NEPAL; Nepali Poetry; Lekhnath Paudyal (1885-1966); A Parrot in a Cage; Himalaya; Remembering Saraswali; An Ode to Death; Last Poem; Balkrishna Sama (1903-1981); Man Is God Himself; I Hate; AII-Pervading Poetry; from Sight of the Incarnation; Lakshmiprasad Devkota (1909-1959); Sleeping Porter; from Muna and Madan; Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Magh; Mad; Like Nothing into Nothing; Siddhicharan Shreshtha (b. 1912); A Suffering World; No Smoke from the Chimneys; My Reflection
Summary
While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today. An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature-poetry and the short story-this work profiles eleven of Nepal's most distinguished poets and offers translations of more than eighty poems written from 1916 to 1986. Twenty of the most interesting and best-known example
Analysis
Nepali literature
Notes
Translated from Nepali
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) and index
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