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Erotic Love Poems from India: 101 Classics on Desire and Passion

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Erotic Love Poems from India: 101 Classics on Desire and Passion - Schelling, Andrew (Translated by)
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"'A single stanza of the poet Amaru,' declared a ninth-century poetry critic, 'may provide the taste of love equal to what's found in whole volumes.' Graceful and yet remarkably playful, intensely passionate, and at times hinting of divine transcendence, the poems translated here offer poignant glimpses into the many faces of erotic love. This collection, known in Sanskrit as the Amarushataka ('One Hundred Poems of Amaru'), was compiled in the eighth century and remains to this day one of India's finest collections of love ...

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Erotic Love Poems from India: 101 Classics on Desire and Passion 2019, Shambhala

ISBN-13: 9781611807110

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