A FACE DEFACED
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Price: Rs. 135. Telugu poetry has come a long way from the days of pure ro-manticism and entered an era of humanism and social realism and embellished itself with modern poetic techniques like sur-realism, Dadaism, feminism etc. Booning Gods and booming kings took a backseat allowing the common man ascend the throne of poetic expression. Classic Telugu shook off its ba-roque golden attire with Sanskrit flavours to become a naked maid with sweaty scents of downtrodden lot. We see in day to day life, the ugly happenings on streets and read of all the horrific incidents in newspapers with plain dispassion. But when expressed as poetry we start feeling the vulgarity of truth and cruelty of reality. Sarikonda Narasimha Raju, a young Telugu poet has a dynamic poetic expression betraying anybody's expectation of callow-ness associated with such young apologist. His microscopic observation of the society, wider perspectives, his sensitive heart and command over poetics are very evident in this book titled "A FACE DEFACED".