Mangalesh Dabral was born in 1948 in a village of the Tehri Garhwal district (the Himalayan region). He spent all of his adult life as a literary editor for various newspapers published in Delhi and other north Indian cities. His books include five collections of poems, Pahar Par Laltein (Lantern on the Mountain, 1981), Ghar Ka Rasta (The Way Home, 1981), Hum Jo Dekhate Hain (That Which We See, 1995), Aawaaz Bhi Ek Jagah Hai (Voice Too Is a Place, 2000) and Naye Yug Mein Shatru (New-Age Enemies, 2013), and two collections of literary essays and sociocultural commentary, Lekhak Ki Roti (Writer's Bread, 1998) and Kavi Ka Akelapan (Solitude of a Poet, 2008), and a book of conversations, Upkathan (Substatement, 2014). He also published a travel account, Ek Baar Iowa (Once in Iowa, 1996), based on his experiences in Iowa, USA, where he resided for three months as a fellow of the International Writing Program in 1991. His poems have been widely translated and published in all major Indian languages and in Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Polish and Bulgarian. They have been included in various periodicals, such as Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, The Poetry Review and The Little Magazine, and the anthologies Periplus (ed. Daniel Weissbort and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra), Survival (ed. Daniel Weissbort and Girdhar Rathi), Gestures (an anthology of poems from SAARC countries) and Signatures (ed. K. Satchidanandan). Aawaaz Bhi Ek Jagah Hai was translated into Italian by Prof. Mariola Offredi under the title Anche la Voce e un Luogo. Dabral was featured in many events and festivals, including the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and others in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, and various cities in Germany. He translated into Hindi the poems of Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal, Yannis Ritsos, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Zbigniew Herbert, to name a few. He also worked as a consultant to the National Book Trust, India, and received a number of awards, including Shamsher Sammaan (1995), Pahal Sammaan (1998) and the Sahitya Akademi Award (2000). Dabral passed away in 2020.
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix Asking for Favors 1 The Places That Are Left 2 The Accompanist 3 Touch 4 Woman in Love 5 The Quiet House 7 Old Photographs 8 The Missing 9 Song of the Dislocated 10 Torchlight 11 Before Going to Sleep 12 The Seven-Day Journey 13 This Number Does Not Exist 15 Good for a Lifetime 16 The Death of Leaves 17 Grandfather's Photograph 18 Letter to Children 19 Poem of Dreams 20 Poem of Paper 21 A Picture of Father 22 A Picture of Mother 23 A Picture of Myself 24 A Poem on Childhood 25 Return 26 Kiss 27 I Wish 28 A Picture 29 A Tale of Love 30 An Act 31 The Sounds 32 Words 33 A Dream 34 Civilisation 35 City 36 This Winter 37 The Other Hand 38 Outside 39 The Way Home 40 My Face 41 Lantern on Mountain 42 A Child 44 Daily Grind 45 Exhaustion 47 Final Incident 49 We 51 In Passing 52 Delhi: 2 54 Enemy in the New Era 55 Reality These Days 57 The New Bank 59 One of Gujarat's Dead Speaks 61 The City, Again 63 Afterword 65 About the Translators 69
CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix Asking for Favors 1 The Places That Are Left 2 The Accompanist 3 Touch 4 Woman in Love 5 The Quiet House 7 Old Photographs 8 The Missing 9 Song of the Dislocated 10 Torchlight 11 Before Going to Sleep 12 The Seven-Day Journey 13 This Number Does Not Exist 15 Good for a Lifetime 16 The Death of Leaves 17 Grandfather's Photograph 18 Letter to Children 19 Poem of Dreams 20 Poem of Paper 21 A Picture of Father 22 A Picture of Mother 23 A Picture of Myself 24 A Poem on Childhood 25 Return 26 Kiss 27 I Wish 28 A Picture 29 A Tale of Love 30 An Act 31 The Sounds 32 Words 33 A Dream 34 Civilisation 35 City 36 This Winter 37 The Other Hand 38 Outside 39 The Way Home 40 My Face 41 Lantern on Mountain 42 A Child 44 Daily Grind 45 Exhaustion 47 Final Incident 49 We 51 In Passing 52 Delhi: 2 54 Enemy in the New Era 55 Reality These Days 57 The New Bank 59 One of Gujarat's Dead Speaks 61 The City, Again 63 Afterword 65 About the Translators 69
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