Nude: Poems by Vishal Bhardwaj EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Vishal Bhardwaj
- Language: English
- Genre: Fantasy Adventure Fiction
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- Size: 2 MB
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Sukrita Paul Kumar
When it comes to his poetry, feeling the intensity of love in its denial is Vishal
Bhardwaj’s forte. He comes across as a deeply romantic poet – ‘a spy in his own
heart’ – exploring the possibilities of realizing love in his poems. In a sense, he
seeks to experience the positive in its contrariness. While promises are sought and
made, their value can perhaps be felt more if they are not kept! The poet revels in
yearning. Many of the poems in this volume pulsate with some ‘seeking’.
There is
in them an unusual imagery, evocative style and an idiom that is contemporary
and yet reminiscent of the old-world charm of both the Hindi as well as the Urdu
poetic traditions. Lines abound offering examples of how contradictions can be
reconciled simply and ingeniously. They flourish in Vishal’s poems and add a
reflective dimension to them.
Vishal’s request to translate his poems was very timely and providential. His
ghazals and nazms came like melodies to lift my spirits just when I had broken my
leg and was completely immobilized. The dismal prospect of a long and fallow
period ahead – that of healing – filled up at once with imaginative expeditions
into the world of Vishal’s poems. I was nowhere close to my own muse to write
poems around this time. Thankfully, this external stimulus to engage with poetry
came my way and I fervently began the process of translation with almost an
instinctive owning of the poems.
I can say with absolute conviction that I
responded to these poems not as a critic to evaluate them, nor as a teacher to
interpret or explain them but as a reader, in a natural way. The process of
translation followed without any deliberation. Yes, indeed, the calling was that
each poem be born in a different linguistic locale while preserving its identity as a
poem. Losses in translating poetry are inevitable. I hope there are some gains too
in their recreation.
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