George L. Hart is a professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Hank Heifetz is a poet and translator from the Spanish, Sanskrit, and Tamil.

Eminent scholar George L. Hart and gifted poet Hank Heifetz have transcreated for English readers the ancient Tamil classicPurananuru, a compilation of poems composed about two thousand years ago by more than a hundred and fifty poets... While accurately capturing the quintessential beauty of poetic Tamil, the authors successfully evoke an authentic aura of the culture, geography, glimpses of history, and everyday life of the ancient Tamils. -- Kokila Ravi Contemporary South Asia This unique translation... is undoubtedly George L. Hart and Hank Heifet'z most successful collaboration to date. -- Martha Ann Selby Journal of Asian Studies

George L. Hart is a professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Hank Heifetz is a poet and translator from the Spanish, Sanskrit, and Tamil.

Eminent scholar George L. Hart and gifted poet Hank Heifetz have transcreated for English readers the ancient Tamil classicPurananuru, a compilation of poems composed about two thousand years ago by more than a hundred and fifty poets... While accurately capturing the quintessential beauty of poetic Tamil, the authors successfully evoke an authentic aura of the culture, geography, glimpses of history, and everyday life of the ancient Tamils. -- Kokila Ravi Contemporary South Asia This unique translation... is undoubtedly George L. Hart and Hank Heifet'z most successful collaboration to date. -- Martha Ann Selby Journal of Asian Studies

George L. Hart is a professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Hank Heifetz is a poet and translator from the Spanish, Sanskrit, and Tamil.

Eminent scholar George L. Hart and gifted poet Hank Heifetz have transcreated for English readers the ancient Tamil classicPurananuru, a compilation of poems composed about two thousand years ago by more than a hundred and fifty poets... While accurately capturing the quintessential beauty of poetic Tamil, the authors successfully evoke an authentic aura of the culture, geography, glimpses of history, and everyday life of the ancient Tamils. -- Kokila Ravi Contemporary South Asia This unique translation... is undoubtedly George L. Hart and Hank Heifet'z most successful collaboration to date. -- Martha Ann Selby Journal of Asian Studies