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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. His latest work is Second Sight (1986) which is a set of poems very different from the earlier poems both in content and form. Another well-known translation of his is Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Visnu by Nammalvar (1981). While this book won a gold medal from the Tamil Writers’ Association, his Speaking of Siva won the National Book Award in 1974. He is much more well-known as a translator and his The Interior Landscape is a translation of the great Tamil classic Kurunthokai. His poems have found a place in many anthologies of Indian English poetry and Commonwealth poetry and he himself has been discussed in a number of critical works on the two areas. His first book of poems The Striders was published in 1966 by Oxford University Press and his second volume of poems Relations was published again by OUP in 1969. He was Professor of Linguistics and Dravidian Studies in the University of Chicago till his death on July 13, 1993. After a brief teaching career in India he moved to U.S.

Hymns for the Drowning by Nammalvar