Love Stands Alone: Selections from Tamil Sangam PoetryLanguage: EnglishPages: 260. Back of the Book The 160 odd poems in Love Stands Alone are often quite short though theres enough going on in them to fill a chapter in a fat novel Keeping the voice low the tone level, they say the most heartbreaking, or urgent or joyful thing. This is way we are still listening to them our ears pricked after 2000 years Luckily for us, Thangappa translates several of the longer poems too; reading them is like watching