Author: Udaya Narayana Singh
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 112
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189020579
Description
Second Person Singular is the poetic expression of the epiphanic other-view of love and life that language presents to each individual. Udaya Narayana Singh’s original Maithili poems in this translation present the strange counterpoints that one gets from an involvement with language. They bring out the dialectical texture of the silent spaces in human relationships.
Shot through with ardour for the art of poetry and an exploration of the many moods of love in an unmistakably Indian idiom, the poet’s penchant for the miniature image and the powerful word endure in this volume.
Contents
AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION - BY WAY OF BEGINNING
Quarrel with the Ocean
Season of Love on Earth
You
Tales of Days and Nights
Conspiracy
Verbum Sapienti, To Damyanti
Questions
Sounds Growing Within
The Familiar
Synonyms
The Seed
After How Many Years
Why Don’t You Write?
The Swan
Disaster
You Are Unique
Old Love
Wants
For My Husband -1
For My Husband -2
For My Husband -3
Accounts
Speaking for Myself
Confession
Leave a Little Space
Fear-!
Fear-2
Naming Anarchic Poet
Maybe You Will Speak Up!
Read Me Your Poems
Biography
Second Person Singular