Book record
Ragdoll after My Heart
Anuradha Vaidya
Translated from Marathi by Shruti Nargundkar
Ragdoll after My Heart, by Anuradha Vaidya and translated by Shruti Nargundkar from Marathi, brings Marathi-language poetry from India into English through Marathi intimacy, broken tenderness, and the ragdoll as a figure for love handled too roughly. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for ragdoll, heart, tenderness, and the uneasy softness of something made to be held, not as a fixed lesson about India. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Ragdoll after My Heart belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings Marathi poetry into the library through vulnerability, embodiment, and emotional oddness.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Zubaan Books
- Language
- Marathi
- Country
- India
- ISBN
- 9789383074099