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THE POLLEN WAITS ON TIPTOE

D R Bendre Translated by Madhav Ajjampur

A compilation of over twenty poems by the renowned poet Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, translated from Kannada, that gestures to the formal range of his work, from sonnets to free verse and lyric, among others.

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