Confronting Love: Poems
Forty-six Indian poets on love
And even now/when … years have passed/love has
nothing to say … writes Vinay Dharwarker in his
poem Waking, included in this anthology. Nevertheless,
poets continue to address the issue of love, looking for
novel and original ways to beat clichés. In Confronting
Love, Indian poets writing in English try to make sense
of this emotion.
From the spiritual to the corporeal, from the whimsical
to the brooding, these poems convey the myriad nuances
of love. There is pathos here and ecstasy, obsession
and resignation. There is, as the editors say, the being-in-love
poem, the being out-of-love poem, and the regular tumbling-headlong-into-it
poem as veterans and young talents alike seek to strike
a balance between craft and feelings in dealing with
the favourite theme of poets all over the world love.
Edited by Jerry Pinto, Arundhati Subramanian |
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