Journeys: A Poet's Diary - Hardcover

Guillermo Rodriguez; Krishna Ramanujan (Eds.); A.K. Ramanujan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670092088 ISBN 13: 9780670092086

Publisher: Viking, 2019

Synopsis

A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993), one of Indias finest poets, translators, folklorists, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century, is a stalwart in Indias literary history. His translations of ancient Tamil and medieval Kannada poetry, as well as of UR Ananthamurthys novel Samskara, are considered as classics in Indian literature. A pioneering modernist poet, during his lifetime he produced four poetry collections in English, and he had also intended to publish the journals he had kept throughout the decades. After his premature death 25 years ago, his journals, diaries, papers and other documents-spanning fifty years from 1944 to 1993-were given by his family to the Special Collections Research Center at the Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago in June 1994. These unpublished writings, meticulously preserved and catalogued at the University of Chicago, were waiting for someone to unveil them to a wider readership. Edited by Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodríguez, Journeys offers access to Ramanujans personal diaries and journals, providing a window into his creative process. It will include literary entries from his travels, his thoughts on writing, poetry drafts, and dreams. His diaries and journals served as fertile ground where he planted the seeds for much of his published work.

About this title

About the Author

AK. Ramanujan, taught at the University of Chicago for 30 years, has remained an iconic figure for the Indian literary community for a long time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670092088
• ISBN 13: 9780670092086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240