CONTEMPORARY IDIANS POETS

Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read slowly, with love and with our inner ear cocked. By reading a written description, your mind is responsible for creating that image in your head, and the worlds described in books will help you expand your understanding, even while you travel in India.

The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. Jeet Thayil’s selection, covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century – the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s – but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many other countries. It is a groundbreaking global anthology of 70 poets writing in a common language, responding to shared traditions, different cultures and contrasting lives in the changing modern world. This is a crucial addition to world poetry and an eye-opening reading adventure. https://www.amazon.com/Bloodaxe-Book-Contemporary-Indian-Poets/dp/1852248017

THE WORMS – Poetry of Kamala Das

At sunset, on the bank of the river, Krishna loved him for the last time and left. That night, in the arms of her husband, Radha felt so dead that he asked, “What’s wrong? Do you mind if I kiss you, love? And she said, “No, not at all,” but he thought, “What does it matter to the corpse of the bite of the worms?”

 

 

PROPERTY – Poetry of Moniza Alvi

Inside me there is a kernel, like the one that tries to fill the mango. Inside is the essence of another continent. I’m afraid that someone I throw it away, but as it would be best to take it in his arms and run away with him!

 

 

THE PLACE OF A WOMAN – Poetry of Imtiaz Dharker

You must be careful of the mouth, especially if you’re a woman. A smile goes choked with the hem of her sari. No one should see your own cracked serenity, even with joy. If every time you need to scream, alone foul, but in front of a mirror, where you can see the strange shape that takes the mouth, before the rub on.