Shrikant Verma
The 56 poems that make up this collection take on a variety of voices commoners, wanderers, people close to power (but never in power) that range in tone from nostalgic to ironic to bitter to outraged. While Cavafy, Borges and Calvino are easy touchstones, it is Vermas keen political eye that sets him apart, and Magadh remains a unique book one of the most important collections of Hindi poetry, and the masterpiece of a great world poet. Magadh, Shrikant ...