Gopikrishnan Kottoor’s Reflections in Silhouette is a daringly original collection of ninety love poems that at times verges on the erotic in the typical Indian tradition of the Prakrit love poems, Sangam poems, or Jayadeva’s Gita Govindam. They reassure us, that neither Shakespeare, Pablo Neruda, nor Yannis Ritsos have completely exhausted the regenerative potential of love poetry, and that fresh metaphors, novel phrases and evocative images – ...
