ISBN 9780670094479|Hardback|376 pages|2020|Penguin Random House India
Singing in the Dark brings together a collection of poetic responses which try to encapsulate our universal experiences towards the coronavirus pandemic.
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The coronavirus pandemic brought about a huge change in peoples lives. Social distancing, restrictions in travel, trauma, isolation, revival to name a few. Singing in the Dark is an amazing anthology which conveys the conflicting emotions of our times.
The moods vary from quiet contemplation and choking anguish to suppressed rage and cautious celebration in an anthology that serves as an aesthetic archive of a strange era in human history.
The poems in this book capture the various dimensions of the current times. This collection gives new meaning to what it is to be alive.
Authors:
Various
Editors: K. Satchidanandan, Nishi Chawla
ISBN:
9780670094479
Binding:
Hardback
Pages:
376
Year of Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Penguin Random House India
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Editors
K. Satchidanandan is a leading Indian poet He is also perhaps the most translated of contemporary Indian poets, having 32 collections of translation in 19 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, English, Irish, French, German and Italian, besides all the major Indian languages. He has 24 collections of poetry, four books of travel, a full length play and a collection of one-act plays, two books for children and several collections of critical essays, including five books in English on Indian literature besides several collections of world poetry in translation. He has been a Professor of English, and also the chief executive of the Sahitya Akademi, the Director of the School of Translation Studies, Indira Gandhi Open University, Delhi and National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He is a Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and has won 52 literary awards from different states and countries, including the Sahitya Akademi award, India-Poland Friendship Medal from the Government of Poland, Knighthood from the Government of Italy and World Prize for Poetry for Peace from the Government of the UAE. His recent collections in English include While I Write, Misplaced Objects and Other Poems, The Missing Rib: Collected Poems, Not Only the Oceans, Questions from the Dead and The Whispering Tree: Poems of Love and Longing.
Nishi Chawla is an academician and a writer. She has six collections of poetry, nine plays, two screenplays and two novels to her credit. Nishi Chawla holds a Ph. D. in English from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. USA. After teaching for nearly twenty years as a tenured Professor of English at Delhi University, India, she had migrated with her family to a suburb of Washington D.C. She has taught at the University of Maryland from 1999 until 2014. She is now on the faculty of Thomas Edison State University, New Jersey, USA. Nishi Chawla's plays get staged both in the USA and in India.
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