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ABSTRACT:
The voice of Anuraag Sharma that eloquently resounds in this volume is but one of the author’s multiple voices as dramatist, translator, critic and, in the avatar which here concerns us, poet. In this his latest collection of poems, the reader encounters images that crystallise or expand around human relations, ties of kinship and friendship, as exemplified in the father-son relationship that gives the book its title. Private epiphanies flash into consciousness to illuminate and transcend a public world that has failed to deliver on its promises and has burnt itself out: still, through the word, the poet strives to make sense of disparate lives, others’ and his own.
The locus of many of the poems is recognisably subcontinental, but the reader should not expect to find a hyperspecific instance of ‘Indian poetry’: Anuraag Sharma resembles a Satish Verma rather than a Jayanta Mahapatra, with Indian motifs appearing in order to ground the poems in a determinate time and place rather than to adumbrate a full-scale critique of Indian realities
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