{"product_id":"erotic-poems-from-the-sanskrit-an-anthology-9780231184397","title":"Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In \u003ci\u003eErotic Poems from the Sanskrit, \u003c\/i\u003e noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in a modern English vernacular. The volume features works by seventy-two poets, including seven women poets and thirty-five anonymous poets, primarily composed between the fourth and seventeenth centuries. It includes a detailed introduction that guides readers through Sanskrit poetic forms and explains how to read and appreciate the poems in English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eErotic Poems from the Sanskrit\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to represent the breadth of Sanskrit poetry through the ages and to present a cohesive, thematically unified selection when read as a whole. The works in this volume depict licit and illicit love, speaking to the joys and sorrows of consummation and separation and a broader cultural celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Often sexually explicit, they are replete with recurrent scenarios and striking tactile, visual, and olfactory images, whose resonance and use as motifs across eras are expertly explained. Parthasarathy shows that Sanskrit poets are our contemporaries despite the centuries that separate us, as they speak simply and passionately to a wide range of human experience. \u003ci\u003eErotic Poems from the Sanskrit\u003c\/i\u003e offers English-speaking readers an enticing and tantalizing initiation into the riches and beauty of this venerable poetic tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR. Parthasarathy is professor emeritus of English at Skidmore College. He is the editor and translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 1993).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844171075858,"sku":"9780231184397","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f14123f-d860-4987-8a3a-fe2fcb350209.jpg?v=1737313177","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/erotic-poems-from-the-sanskrit-an-anthology-9780231184397","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}