Saint in the Cellar

From out of India and the Marathi language, and through the eyes and ears of translator S.A. Virkar, comes the poetry of one of Asia's finest and most celebrated 20th century writers -- to America's shores and the rest of the English-speaking world. Kusumagraj is a recipient of his country's most prestigious literary prize, The Jnanpith Award, for outstanding contribution to Indian literature, and his selected poems are a look into a literary career spanning fifty years as the political and cultural conscience of the Maharashtra peoples and their Marathi language. In poems of unusual imagination embodied in a style and language that mirrors the dignity and grace of classical Sanskrit, we are introduced to an artist of inspiring idealism that passionately embraces notions of social justice and racial equality. Just as Kusumagraj was and remains an inspiration in the East, so, too, are we, here in the West, now blessed with a sample from the poetry of one of the great writers of our time. Book jacket.Siravaaodakara, Vi Vaa is the author of 'Saint in the Cellar ', published 2003 under ISBN 9781883197186 and ISBN 188319718X.