Shrikant Verma

Magadh (eBook, ePUB)

Poems
Übersetzer: Soni, Rahul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A modern classic of Indian poetrynow available to American readers for the first time.

First published in 1984, Shrikant Verma's masterpiece takes its name from the ancient Indian kingdom of Magadh, which rose to prominence between the sixth to the second century BCE. Narrated by a chorus of speakerscommoners, statesmen, and wanderersthese fifty-six poems piece together the history of Magadh and other long-forgotten kingdoms of the Indian subcontinent, their rise to power, and their eventual fall. These stark and haunting poems, eloquently translated from Hindi by Rahul Soni, lay bare all-too-familiar tales of guilt, ignorance, and arrogance. This landmark edition, finally available in the United States, vibrates with the unsettling force of cultural memory and contemporary relevance.

Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award

In Magadh, [Verma's] collection of verse, excellently translated, we can see, eerily prefigured, our own present: the grand illusions, the raucous vanity, the chronic self-doubt and ultimate fragility of power.Pankaj Mishra

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324097693
• Artikelnr.: 75739709

Autorenporträt

Shrikant Verma (19311986) was an Indian poet and a member of Parliament from 1976 to 1986. He is the prize-winning author of twenty books.