Poetry of India 44/100: K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar and the Lyric Imagination of Toru Dutt
Part 44 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through Indian poetry. Toru Dutt’s poetry brings together Indian memory, English-language expression and a deep awareness of cultural translation. Though she died very young in the nineteenth century, her work helped establish an important place for Indian writers in English. Her poems often use landscape, family memory and inherited stories to explo…