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Overview
"Song of the Dislocated"
With a heavy heart we left tore away from the ancestral home
mud slips behind us now stones fall in a hail
look back a bit brother how the doors shut themselves
behind each one of them a room utterly forlorn
Mangalesh Dabral was born in 1948 in the Tehri Garhwal district of the Himalayas. The author of nine books of poetry, essays, and other genres, his work has been translated and published in all major Indian languages and in Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Polish, and Bulgarian. He has spent his adult life as a literary editor for various newspapers published in Delhi and other north Indian cities, and has been featured at numerous international events and festivals, including the International Poetry Festival. The recipient of many literary awards, he has also translated into Hindi the works of Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal, Yannis Ritsos, Tadeusz Rozewicz, and Zbigniew Herbert. Dabral lives in Ghaziabad, India.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781942683124 |
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Publisher: | BOA Editions, Ltd. |
Publication date: | 06/14/2016 |
Edition description: | Bilingual |
Pages: | 168 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Author's Note 11
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Good for a Lifetime 15
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The Quiet House 17
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The Death of Leaves 19
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Words 21
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Woman in Love 23
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Outside 25
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Grandfather's Photograph 27
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Letter to Children 29
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Poem of Dreams 31
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Poem of Paper 33
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The Sounds 35
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In Passing 37
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City 41
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The Other Hand 43
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Daily Grind 45
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We 49
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Delhi: 2 51
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Lantern on Mountain 53
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Exhaustion 57
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A Child 59
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Final Incident 61
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Return 65
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The Seven-Day Journey 67
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A Poem on Childhood 69
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This Is Where the River Was 71
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Inside You 73
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Absence 75
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Love 77
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The Room 79
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Skin 81
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These Times 83
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Delhi: 1 85
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The Places That Are Left 87
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I Wish 89
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Kiss 91
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New Orleans Jazz 93
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The Accompanist 97
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A Picture of Father 99
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A Picture of Mother 101
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A Picture of Myself 103
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Gunanand Pathik 105
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Tale of Two Poets 109
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The Way Home 111
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Before Going to Sleep 113
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Touch 115
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This Number Does Not Exist 117
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The Missing 119
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Song of the Dislocated 121
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This Winter 123
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Old Photographs 125
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My Way 127
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Torchlight 129
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A Dream 131
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An Act 133
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My Face 135
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Civilization 137
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A Picture 139
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Asking for Favors 141
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The City, Again 143
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Enemy in the New Era 147
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The New Bank 151
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One of Gujarat's Dead Speaks 153
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Reality These Days 157
Acknowledgments 161
About the Author 162
About the Translators 165