Old Time Love Song Magic by Vidya and translated by Andrew Schelling

This is poetry from India.

Old Time Love Song Magic by Vidya translated by Andrew Schelling is published by Circumference Books. This is a Book originally written in Sanskrit. This was published in 2025.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781949918083E12.

Old Time Love Song Magic, by Vidya, is a Sanskrit poetry collection from India, translated by Andrew Schelling, published by Circumference Books in 2025. It is a Sanskrit volume where classical lyric, song, desire, and ritual feeling return through contemporary translation. The title has the sweetness of something ancient that refuses to become antique. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from India. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.