Author: Jerry Pinto
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 54
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8177645277
Description
Some of these poems appeared in The Indian PEN, The Economic Times, The Independent, Debonair, the Brown Critique, Poesis and The Little Magazine.
REVIEWS
Jerry Pinto's accomplished first book of poems travels the breath-taking spaces between madness, luminosity and quiet rebellion. Here, even paper has life of its own, and that is just the beginning. The poems find themselves set adrift in an asylum-seeker's dilemma: the making of hopeful sea voyages; the dangerous search for safe havens; the lovely moments of slippage of anchor and sense and what love means. This is a writer who draws precise lines of control and then, with surprising tenderness, crosses them.
-Imtiaz Dharker
Author of Purdah, Postcards from God and I Speak For the Devil
Contents
Prayer
Asylum
The Quiet Rebellion of Paper
Exiled Home from Burma
Cetacean Song
Termite Queen
At Thirty
Well, If You're a Poet, Write Me a Poem
Dadiba's Matka
For Allan, Whom I Never Saw
Rain
Old Wall
Incident at Chira Bazaar
For My Students
This Summer
Sleep
Rictus
Letter
Dreaming at Mukesh Mills
Alphabet Soup
On Swallowing the Pit of a Peach
Some Questions I Want Answered
Pigeon
Desk Clearance
Four a. m.
Security
Tree 1
Tree 2
Tree 3
Tree 4
Tree 5
Tree 6
From Another Planet
Bedside