Sweet Nothings The Love Poems Of Amaru

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Book Description

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

<pLee 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.