Autobiography of a Goddess by Andal Andal, Ravi Shankar and translated by Priya Sarukkai Chabria

This is poetry from India.

Autobiography of a Goddess by Andal Andal, Ravi Shankar translated by Priya Sarukkai Chabria is published by Zubaan Books. This is a Book originally written in Tamil. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78938475767E12.

Autobiography of a Goddess, associated here with Andal and Ravi Shankar and translated by Priya Sarukkai Chabria, belongs to the shelf as a Tamil devotional and literary encounter rather than a straightforward contemporary collection. The title is already magnificent: it asks the reader to imagine divinity speaking not as doctrine, but as lyric life. Poems connected to Andal carry love, devotion, erotic charge, and sacred address in ways that make any simple division between religious and bodily feeling feel insufficient. A good reader does not need to solve that tension. The tension is the point. This book offers English-language readers a way into Tamil literary inheritance where song, worship, desire, and myth continue to speak through each other.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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