Author: Anurag Mathur
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 102
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143033514
Description
The word
That defines my life:
Later. Mine has been
A life that will be lived later.
In A Life Lived Later: Poems, his first collection of verse, Anurag Mathur, best-selling author of The Inscrutable Americans and Making the Minister Smile, looks back on varied life experiences. From a loving portrait of a grandfather and fleeting childhood reminiscences of cricket on a turning track, to youthful passions and sad farewells, he weaves his words around themes that are intensely personal, yet universal. Even as he writes of belonging and identity, of lost loves, the agony of talent, and the road not taken, his verse evokes memories of languid walks through the streets of my youth and glorious sunsets, painted by some unbelievably talented God.
Deeply felt and passionate, imbued with nostalgic yearning, these poems resonate in our minds long after we have read them.
Contents
RETURN
Unkind Words
Seeker
Memory
In Praise, Partly
Homes, Past
New Year Vows
Some Nights
A Friend, Still Gone
Scenes in the City
College Queries
Return II
Unanswered Letters
Remembreance
Wild Rider
A Shadow Cast by a Stranger
Her Shadow
Leaving the Room
Grandfather
To C
A Language Not My Own
Angles in the World
Ask
The Poet
Love at the End
Didn’t Feel Like It
Retrospective
Indian Women, Anthem
Oklahoma Reverie
Dusty ancestors
Delhi Summer
Delhi at Dark
One of Those Days
Having Lost in America
A Dilemma for Our Times
Besotted
In an Unfamiliar Place
Ride the Submarine
Retired
Riot: the Beginning
Warlord
Lost Love
There Was a Boy
The End
I Wonder
Beggar Woman
Some Marriages
Ambition’s Child
Scraps
Death
Pain
Beliefs
Palanquin Ride
Drunk, Confessional
You and Me
More Memories
So Alone
A World Within
The Atheist
The Old Man
Verities
Death, Old Friend
The Dark Ahead
Beggar Child
Growing Up
Night Song
Incomplete
Prescience
The Poets
Asylum
Poetry
That Night
Hunger
Loneliness
Desire and Memory
A Life Lived Later