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The Golden BoatSelected PoemsRabindranath TagoreTranslated by Joe Winter
Categories: 19th Century, BAME, Indian
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (208 pages) (Pub. Jul 2008) 9780856464065 Out of Stock
The Golden Boat It’s deep monsoon. The thunder-sky-clouds call. On the bank in a small field I stay Who’s that bringing his boat in, singing a song? Friend, where are you off to, what far shore ? Take however much you want aboard. No room, no room! The small boat, stacked today 1892 Translated by Joe Winter Bengali is the world’s seventh most popular language in terms of the number who use it, but few have made the journey from the West to its cultural or spiritual interior. Its intellectual tradition is without equal in present-day India. Rabindranath Tagore, a true Renaissance man, is its greatest writer. |
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