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Varavara Rao: A Life in Poetry is the first-ever collection in English of poems by the Telugu poet selected and translated from sixteen books that he has published. Having begun to write poetry in his early teens Varavara Rao now in his early eighties continues to be a doyen of Telugu modern poets. He was a consistent comrade-in-letters to all the social movements from the 1960s to the 2010s and this volume is a capsule of momentous social history captured in his poetic imagination. The poems in the collection offer an artistic blend of tender response and thoughtful reaction to social realities as well as an explosion of powerful emotions from a voice sought to be subdued.

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Varavara Rao has been a poet, literary critic, public speaker and teacher of language and literature. He is the author of seventeen collections of poetry and nineteen books of prose (including seven books of literary criticism and translation), all in Telugu. Meena Kandasamy is an anti-caste activist, poet, novelist and translator. She has written books of poems such as Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), as well as three novels, The Gypsy Goddess (2014), When I Hit You (2017), and Exquisite Cadavers (2019).

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