This Number Does Not Exist (Paperback or Softback)

Dabral, Mangalesh

ISBN 10: 194268312X / ISBN 13: 9781942683124

Published by BOA Editions 6/14/2016, 2016

This Number Does Not Exist. Seller Inventory # BBS-9781942683124

Synopsis:

An attentive critique on contemporary reality—modernity, capitalism, industrialization—this first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for the dislocated, disillusioned people of our time. Juxtaposing the rugged Himalayan backdrop of Dabral's youth with his later migration in search of earning a livelihood, this collection explores the tense relationship between country and city. Speaking in the language of deep irony, these compassionate poems also depict the reality of diaspora among ordinary people and the middle class, underlining the big disillusionment of post-Independence India.

"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.

About the Author: Mangalesh Dabral was the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and other genres, including This Number Does Not Exist (BOA Editions, 2016). His work has been translated and published in Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, English, Polish, and Bulgarian. He spent his adult life as a literary editor for various newspapers published in Delhi and other north Indian cities, and was featured at numerous international events and festivals, including the International Poetry Festival. The recipient of many literary awards, he also translated into Hindi the works of Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal, Yannis Ritsos, Tadeusz Rozewicz, and Zbigniew Herbert. Mangalesh Dabral died of complications from COVID-19 in December 2020.

Bibliographic Details

Title: This Number Does Not Exist (Paperback or ...
Publisher: BOA Editions 6/14/2016
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback or Softback
Condition: New
Book Type: Book