I lived from 1929-1993.
I was from India.
I was influenced by poets Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats.
A native of Mysore, India, Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan grew up during the latter part of English rule in India, exposing him to the languages that would form his life's work as a poet and translator. Ramanujan's work reveals that cultural tradition in India is a conflict between the colonial English identity of the country as well as its historic and post-colonial ethnic identities. His work, a mixture of the complex languages of which he was a master, is a production of flowing, metaphoric syntax and extremely concentrated composition.
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A native of Mysore, India, Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan grew up during the latter part of English rule in India, exposing him to the languages that would form his life's work as a poet and translator. Ramanujan's work reveals that cultural tradition in India is a conflict between the colonial English identity of the country as well as its historic and post-colonial ethnic identities. His work, a mixture of the complex languages of which he was a master, mingle in his work to produce flowing, metaphoric syntax and extremely concentrated composition.
His father was a mathematics professor at the University of Mysore, where A.K. would later be educated. Ramanujan also attended Deccan college and attended Indiana University for graduate studies; he remained in the United States to teach at the University of Chicago in 1961. He recieved awards such as the MacArthur Fellowship and also India's Padma Shri for distinguished service to the nation of India.
My poetry
I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
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In Madurai,
city of temples and poets,
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Composed as I am, like others,
of elements on certain well-known lists,
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Yet like grandfather
I bathe before the village crow
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Now tidy your house,
dust especially your living room
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Sky-man in a manhole
with astronomy for dream,
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When she left me
after lunch,I read
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Images consult
one
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Lord of new arrivals
lovers and rivals:
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It must come as leaves
to a tree
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