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100			_aRao, Uppada Appa _917368
245			_aGreat wager and other poems
260			_aChennai _bNotionpress _c2022
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520			_aThe book ‘The Great Wager and Other Poems’ is a collection of poems written by Uppada Appa Rao, who was in the teaching profession for 24 years. This anthology of 30 poems depicts the author’s creative process and spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings over a wide variety of areas from the beauty of nature, mythology, to the human quest for the wonders of the firmament. The narration of Harichandra’s two cantos - The Great Wager and Festival of Gifts – an epic poem with a rich vocabulary of the author is extremely exciting and beautiful. Within another epic poem, Rama's reply to Bharata, the author vividly describes the ever-relevant response on good governance. All of these poems were written by the author between 1958 and the 1960s. With this edition, these poems are being published in the form of a book for the first time. The author was inspired by the deep love for nature, provoked by his imagination with thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and immortalized them in his poems: The Heavenly Banner on Earth Unfurled, The Sparrow in My Room, The Sun, To Yuri Gagarin and other poems are soothing and melodious and will touch the heart of the reader
650			_aCollection of poems _917369
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