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The Cane Groves of Narmada River
The Cane Groves of Narmada River
Erotic Poems from Old India
Translated and introduced by Andrew Schelling
ISBN: 0-87286-346-8
90 pp
Paperback Original
$9.95




Of the world’s ancient poetry, that of classical India was the most vividly erotic – uninhibited, tender, sad and joyous by turns. The poems sound as if they might have been written yesterday, although the period they cover ranges from roughly 200 CE until about the eleventh century.

    The Cane Groves is a brilliant selection of refined, provocative, shivery-lovely poems. It has a generous bibliography and an astute introduction that illuminates both poetics and scholarship with its insights into wealth of nature imagery, the implicit watershed consciousness, and a sense of the Wild as Tryst. What a gem of a book! It’s the best gathering of Indian short poems yet.” – Gary Snyder




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