Himalayan voices : an introduction to modern Nepali literature

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Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; Introduction; PART ONE: THE POETS OF NEPAL; Nepali Poetry; Lekhnāth Paudyāl (1885-1966); A Parrot in a Cage; Himalaya; Remembering Saraswalī; An Ode to Death; Last Poem; Bālkrishna Sama (1903-1981); Man Is God Himself; I Hate; AII-Pervading Poetry; from Sight of the Incarnation; Lakshmīprasād Devkotā (1909-1959); Sleeping Porter; from Munā and Madan; Prayer on a Clear Morning in the Month of Māgh; Mad; Like Nothing into Nothing; Siddhicharan Shreshtha (b. 1912); A Suffering World; No Smoke from the Chimneys; My Reflection. UntouchableFather Has Not Come Home; My Son; To the Poet Devkotā; Kedār Mān ""Vyathit"" (b. 1914); Fragment from the Year '09; Ants; A Glimpse; The Storm; The End; War; The Practice of Sculpture; Gopālprasād Rimāl (1918-1973); A Mother's Dream; Consolation; A Mother's Pain; A Change; Who Are You?; To -; Mohan Koirālā (b. 1926); Remembering as I Go; An Introduction to the Land; I Love Your Daughter; The Martyrs; I Remember; A Flower Amid the Mountain Rocks; The Fiddle; The Snow Peak's Blood-Red; It's a Mineral, the Mind; You Who Remember; Bairāgī Kāinlā (b. 1939); The Corpse of a Dream. A Drunk Man's Speech to the Street After MidnightPeople Shopping at a Weekly Market; Pārijāt (b. 1937); Sweep Away; To Gopālprasād Rimāl's ""To -""; A Sick Lover's Letter to Her Soldier; In the Arms of Death; Bhūpi Sherchan (1936-1989); Always Always in My Dream; Midday and the Cold Sleep; I Think My Country's History Is a Lie; A Blind Man on a Revolving Chair; This Is a Land of Uproar and Rumor; New Year; A Poem; A Dove of Two Delicate White Hands: Your Greeting; Cold Ashtray; A Cruel Blow at Dawn; Bānīrā Giri (b. 1946); Time, You Are Always the Winner; I Am a Torn Poster; Kathmandu; Woman. New Trends in Nepali PoetryBhairava Aryāl (1936-1976); A Leaf in a Storm; Haribhakta Katuvāl (1935-1980); A Wish; This Life, What Life Is This?; Ìshwar Ballabh (b. 1937); The Shadows of Superfluous Songs; Where Is the Voice?; Hem Hamāl (b. 1941); Village and Town; Children Going to School; Before the Dawn; Krishnabhćshan Bal (b. 1947); April Wind; Historical Matters; Bimal Nibhā (b. 1952); Are You Quite Well, Oh Poet?; Ashesh Malla (b. 1954); To the Children; None Returned from the Capital; Mīnbahādur Bishta (b. 1954); What's in the Bastard Hills?; Thus a Nation Pretends to Live. Avināsh Shreshtha (b. 1955)A Spell; Headland; Bishwabimohan Shreshtha (b. 1956); Should I Earn My Daily Bread, or Should I Write a Poem?; PART TWO: SELECTED SHORT STORIES; The Short Story in Nepali; Guruprasād Mainālī (1900-1971); A Blaze in the Straw; Bishweshwar Prasād Koirālā (1915-1982); The Soldier; To the Lowlands; Bhavānī Bhikshu (1914-1981); Will He Ever Return?; Māujang Bābusāheb's Coat; Shivkumār Rāī (b. 1916); The Murderer; Daulat Bikram Bishtha (b. 1926); The Āndhī Kholā; Bijay Malla (b. 1925); Sunglasses; The Prisoner and the Dove; Ramesh Bikal (b. 1932); A Splendid Buffalo