Cloud of Longing

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa''s famed Meghaduta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem''s interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its attention given to the natural world in light of the nexus of language and love that is the chief characteristic (lakshana) of the poem....