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There are some great lines here.
The poetry collection offers a unique journey, with a shift in texture and feel from the last poem on young love, which intriguingly should have been the first. The transition from baroque love to sparse wisdom is a captivating exploration. The epilogue, in particular, stands out.
– Brinda Bose, Professor JNU, English |General Editor, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Indian Avant-garde Art.
Generosity of spirit and ease allow the poet to move effortlessly between figures like Nin, Khakhar, and many more ( like Lalon here.) He is one of the few living writers I look up to.
– Saikat Majumdar, Professor, Ashoka University | Author of The Scent of God
Hoshang Merchant is India’s pre-eminent voice of gay liberation. Born in 1947 to a Zoroastrian business family in Bombay, India, he graduated in 1968 with a major in English and a minor in the culture of India. On his mother’s side, he descends from a line of preachers and teachers.
Hoshang holds a master’s from Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA. At Purdue University, Indiana, USA, he specialized in the renaissance and modernism. After leaving Purdue in 1975, Merchant attended the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Centre, Massachusetts, USA, and lived and taught in Heidelberg, Iran, and Jerusalem, where he was exposed to various radical student movements of the Left.
He has studied Buddhism at the Tibetan Library, Dharamshala, India, and Islam in Iran and Palestine. Since 1979, seventeen of his books of poetry have been published. He recently retired from the University of Hyderabad, India, after twenty-six years of teaching.
