Book record
Tamil love poetry
Anthology
Translated from Tamil by Martha Ann Selby
Tamil love poetry is an anthology of Tamil poetry, translated by Martha Ann Selby, published by Columbia University Press in 2011. It is an anthology of Tamil love poetry that brings classical lyric landscapes into English with scholarly care and sensual immediacy. As an anthology, it matters because it reminds readers that love poetry is never merely personal; it can be geographic, seasonal, coded, communal, and ancient. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of India; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Language
- Tamil
- Country
- India
- ISBN
- 9780231150651