
Himalayan Voices : An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature
by Hutt, Michael-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Note on Transliteration | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Poets of Nepal | p. 11 |
Nepali Poetry | p. 13 |
A Parrot in a Cage | p. 26 |
Himalaya | p. 28 |
Remembering Saraswali | p. 29 |
An Ode to Death | p. 30 |
Last Poem | p. 30 |
Man Is God Himself | p. 34 |
I Hate | p. 35 |
All-Pervading Poetry | p. 35 |
from Sight of the Incarnation | p. 36 |
Sleeping Porter | p. 44 |
from Muna and Madan | p. 45 |
Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Magh | p. 51 |
Mad | p. 53 |
Like Nothing into Nothing | p. 56 |
A Suffering World | p. 59 |
No Smoke from the Chimneys | p. 61 |
My Reflection | p. 61 |
Untouchable | p. 61 |
Father Has Not Come Home | p. 62 |
My Son | p. 63 |
To the Poet Devkota | p. 64 |
Fragment from the Year '09 | p. 68 |
Ants | p. 69 |
A Glimpse | p. 69 |
The Storm | p. 70 |
The End | p. 71 |
War | p. 71 |
The Practice of Sculpture | p. 71 |
A Mother's Dream | p. 75 |
Consolation | p. 76 |
A Mother's Pain | p. 78 |
A Change | p. 79 |
Who Are You? | p. 80 |
To-- | p. 81 |
Remembering as I Go | p. 86 |
An Introduction to the Land | p. 87 |
I Love Your Daughter | p. 89 |
The Martyrs | p. 90 |
I Remember | p. 91 |
A Flower Amid the Mountain Rocks | p. 93 |
The Fiddle | p. 93 |
The Snow Peak's Blood-Red | p. 96 |
It's a Mineral, the Mind | p. 97 |
You Who Remember | p. 98 |
The Corpse of a Dream | p. 102 |
A Drunk Man's Speech to the Street After Midnight | p. 103 |
People Shopping at a Weekly Market | p. 106 |
Sweep Away | p. 113 |
To Gopalprasad Rimal's "To--" | p. 114 |
A Sick Lover's Letter to Her Soldier | p. 115 |
In the Arms of Death | p. 116 |
Always Always in My Dream | p. 122 |
Midday and the Cold Sleep | p. 123 |
I Think My Country's History Is a Lie | p. 124 |
A Blind Man on a Revolving Chair | p. 125 |
This Is a Land of Uproar and Rumor | p. 127 |
New York | p. 128 |
A Poem | p. 129 |
A Dove of Two Delicate White Hands: Your Greeting | p. 130 |
Cold Ashtray | p. 131 |
A Cruel Blow at Dawn | p. 131 |
Time, You Are Always the Winner | p. 133 |
I Am a Torn Poster | p. 135 |
Kathmandu | p. 137 |
Woman | p. 139 |
New Trends in Nepali Poetry | p. 141 |
A Leaf in a Storm | p. 143 |
A Wish | p. 144 |
This Life, What Life Is This? | p. 145 |
The Shadows of Superfluous Songs | p. 146 |
Where Is the Voice? | p. 147 |
Village and Town | p. 149 |
Children Going to School | p. 149 |
Before the Dawn | p. 149 |
April Wind | p. 150 |
Historical Matters | p. 151 |
Are You Quite Well, Oh Poet? | p. 152 |
To the Children | p. 153 |
None Returned from the Capital | p. 154 |
What's in the Bastard Hills? | p. 155 |
Thus a Nation Pretends to Live | p. 157 |
A Spell | p. 158 |
Headland | p. 158 |
Should I Earn My Daily Bread, or Should I Write a Poem? | p. 159 |
Selected Short Stories | p. 171 |
The Short Story in Nepali | p. 173 |
A Blaze in the Straw | p. 189 |
The Soldier | p. 197 |
To the Lowlands | p. 201 |
Will He Ever Return? | p. 207 |
Maujang Babusaheb's Coat | p. 214 |
The Murderer | p. 224 |
The Andhi Khola | p. 231 |
Sunglasses | p. 236 |
The Prisoner and the Dove | p. 240 |
A Splendid Buffalo | p. 244 |
The Half-closed Eyes of the Buddha and the Slowly Setting Sun | p. 253 |
Maina's Mother Is Just Like Us | p. 260 |
A Sweater for Brother-in-law | p. 266 |
It Depends upon Your Point of View | p. 271 |
A Husband | p. 278 |
The Telegram on the Table | p. 284 |
A Relationship | p. 286 |
The Fire | p. 290 |
A Small Fish Squats by the Dhobi Khola | p. 298 |
A Living Death | p. 304 |
Glossary | p. 311 |
Bibliography | p. 317 |
Index | p. 325 |
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