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University of California Press, Berkeley
While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first...
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While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today.An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature-poetry and the short story-this work profiles eleven of Nepal's most distinguished poets and offers translations of more than eighty poems written from 1916 to 1986. Twenty of the most interesting and best-known example
Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; Introduction; PART ONE: THE POETS OF NEPAL; Nepali Poetry; Lekhnath Paudyal (1885-1966); A Parrot in a Cage; Himalaya; Remembering Saraswali; An Ode to Death; Last Poem; Balkrishna Sama (1903-1981); Man Is God Himself; I Hate; AII-Pervading Poetry; from Sight of the Incarnation; Lakshmiprasad Devkota (1909-1959); Sleeping Porter; from Muna and Madan; Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Magh; Mad; Like Nothing into Nothing; Siddhicharan Shreshtha (b. 1912); A Suffering World; No Smoke from the Chimneys; My Reflection
UntouchableFather Has Not Come Home; My Son; To the Poet Devkota; Kedar Man "Vyathit" (b. 1914); Fragment from the Year '09; Ants; A Glimpse; The Storm; The End; War; The Practice of Sculpture; Gopalprasad Rimal (1918-1973); A Mother's Dream; Consolation; A Mother's Pain; A Change; Who Are You?; To -; Mohan Koirala (b. 1926); Remembering as I Go; An Introduction to the Land; I Love Your Daughter; The Martyrs; I Remember; A Flower Amid the Mountain Rocks; The Fiddle; The Snow Peak's Blood-Red; It's a Mineral, the Mind; You Who Remember; Bairagi Kainla (b. 1939); The Corpse of a Dream
A Drunk Man's Speech to the Street After MidnightPeople Shopping at a Weekly Market; Parijat (b. 1937); Sweep Away; To Gopalprasad Rimal's "To -"; A Sick Lover's Letter to Her Soldier; In the Arms of Death; Bhupi Sherchan (1936-1989); Always Always in My Dream; Midday and the Cold Sleep; I Think My Country's History Is a Lie; A Blind Man on a Revolving Chair; This Is a Land of Uproar and Rumor; New Year; A Poem; A Dove of Two Delicate White Hands: Your Greeting; Cold Ashtray; A Cruel Blow at Dawn; Banira Giri (b. 1946); Time, You Are Always the Winner; I Am a Torn Poster; Kathmandu; Woman
New Trends in Nepali PoetryBhairava Aryal (1936-1976); A Leaf in a Storm; Haribhakta Katuval (1935-1980); A Wish; This Life, What Life Is This?; Ìshwar Ballabh (b. 1937); The Shadows of Superfluous Songs; Where Is the Voice?; Hem Hamal (b. 1941); Village and Town; Children Going to School; Before the Dawn; Krishnabhcshan Bal (b. 1947); April Wind; Historical Matters; Bimal Nibha (b. 1952); Are You Quite Well, Oh Poet?; Ashesh Malla (b. 1954); To the Children; None Returned from the Capital; Minbahadur Bishta (b. 1954); What's in the Bastard Hills?; Thus a Nation Pretends to Live
Avinash Shreshtha (b. 1955)A Spell; Headland; Bishwabimohan Shreshtha (b. 1956); Should I Earn My Daily Bread, or Should I Write a Poem?; PART TWO: SELECTED SHORT STORIES; The Short Story in Nepali; Guruprasad Mainali (1900-1971); A Blaze in the Straw; Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1915-1982); The Soldier; To the Lowlands; Bhavani Bhikshu (1914-1981); Will He Ever Return?; Maujang Babusaheb's Coat; Shivkumar Rai (b. 1916); The Murderer; Daulat Bikram Bishtha (b. 1926); The Andhi Khola; Bijay Malla (b. 1925); Sunglasses; The Prisoner and the Dove; Ramesh Bikal (b. 1932); A Splendid Buffalo
