DANCING EARTH. This item is unavailable.DANCING EARTH

The poets of north-east india, though belonging to diverse spaces, cultures, languages and religions, share a common bond it is a sensibility defined by a deep connection with the land; the overarching presence of nature in their lives; the predominance of myths and tribal folklore; and the search for an identity all this informs their poetry and gives it a unique flavour much of the distinctiveness of their work is also the consequence of contemporary events, often marked by violence like its title poem the dancing earth , the anthology too, is a celebration of this life, in all its unpredictable variety, richness and contradictions so while thangjam ibopishak writes i want to be killed by an indian bullet and chandrakanta murasingh speaks of a minister with neither inside nor outside , there are also temsula ao s poems about her stone-people ancestors; mamang dai s portraits of swift rivers and primeval forests; and the shillong poets with their mist-shrouded pine slopes, red cherrie