Old Time Love Song Magic And We Were All Alive I press them close as

I press them close as though death were breathing down my neck

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By turns oblique

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‘A profound love story

Old Time Love Song Magic And We Were All Alive I press them close asVidy (trans. Andrew Schelling) Old Time Love Song Magic is two books in one. The first collects Andrew Schellings translations of the thirty odd existing poems by Vidy, who may have been the earliest woman to write poetry in Sanskrit. Vidys poetry, which comes to us from around 8th century India, is love poetry, and like all good love poetry, it spans a wide spectrum of feeling, from arousal to playfulness to despair. These poems are gracefully