SWEET NOTHINGS THE LOVE POEMS OF AMARU

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  • Pub Date: January 2022
  • Author : Lee Siegel
  • Category: Poetry/Classics
  • Imprint: Speaking Tiger
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Page Extent: 148
  • ISBN: 9789354472138
  • Price: `350.00

ABOUT THE BOOK

Lee Siegel’s English translation of the Amarushataka, an aristocratic collection
of eighth-century amorous Sanskrit poems, is at once playful and erudite,
amusing and poignant, carnal and sublime. The stanzas are little scenes from a
panoramic comedy of erotic love.

The characters: Innocent girls and passionate ladies; devoted husbands and
faithless rogues; female confidantes who help, console, or betray their friends.
The plot: First love, sexual union, separation (because of parents, friends, or
the woman’s jealous anger because the man has another mistress, or perhaps
he must go on a journey), reunion, re-separation, re-reunion.
The theme is the delight of the game, the deliciousness of courtship, and the
sweetness of sex.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lee Siegel, Emeritus Professor of Indian Religions at the University of
Hawai’i, has published four non-fiction books,eight novels, and a translation
of Sanskrit love poetry. He studied comparative literature at the University
of California, Berkeley, fine arts at Columbia University, and he received a
doctorate from Oxford University for his work on Sanskrit religious and
erotic texts. Siegel’s writing has earned him a John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Fellowship, two Writing Residency awards at the
Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center, a visiting Fellowship at All
Souls College, Oxford University, and the Elliot Cades Award for Literature.
He lives in Waimanalo, Hawai’i.

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