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Kunwar Narain is one of the finest poets living today and a pre-eminent literary and intellectual figure in India. He has been variously described as a 'meditative' poet, 'dwelling on the present through the prism of myth and history', and as a writer whose work reveals 'a twentieth century sensibility in its anguish as well as its resourcefulness'. His poems are said to embody a unique simultaneity of the simple and the layered, the contemporary and the metaphysical, but, above all, a rare purity and a deep humanism. Coursing through the past and the present, the absurd and the exploitative, intimate recollections and meditative ruminations, his is poetry that in its intricate weave and egalitarianism leaves us restless and reassured at once. The poems in this collection have been skilfully and painstakingly translated over several years by his son Apurva, who uncovers the nuanced content of the originals without compromising the allied complexities of their construct, not just in the broader demands of rhythm or fluency but also in the finer details of their 'word-music', rhyme or alliteration.
Contents
Introduction. Translator's Preface. EARLY MEDITATIONS - Medium, Chakravyuh, He never slept, A fish of the sea, Sunlight in the room, The Batutah, The Qutab's Precinct, Fatehpur Sikri, Nalanda and Bakhtiyar, Ayodhya 1992, Lucknow, Delhi, In Kafka's Prague, Amir Khusro JOURNEYS - Horoscope, A Map, To That Mound, A Long Journey in the Night by Car, Description of the Missing One, Falcon, If I return This Time THE RIVER DOES NOT GORW OLD - By the Sea, The River does not grow Old, Seasons of Water and Wind: 8 Small Poems, Sarhapa TREES - In the hazy light, My Intimate Neighbour, A green forest, The Killing of a Tree, Flowers of neem, The Whole Forest MIRRORS & SHADOWS - Swathe of Shadows, On Both Sides of the Line, On the Eighth Floor, In the land of butterflies, Midnight REMEMBRANCES - Dew-washed night, Sabina, In Krakow Zoo, Princes, One Evening, She Who had to come Long Ago, Come, but Like This HUMANESQUE - Before turning Him Away Empty-handed, Towards the Markets Too, When One can't remain Human, The Key to Success, Around Ten Every Day, A World Hardly Begun, Laughter. Notes on Poems A Select Bibliography Biographical Notes
