Shadows Don't Live in Walls

An Anthology of Poems by Samartha Vashishtha

A Writers Workshop Redbird Book

ISBN 81-8127-162-2 (Hardback) | ISBN 81-8157-163-0 (Flexiback)

Comments on the book

Here is a young poet with a deeprooted restlessness and concern. With a flowing language dangling like twigs of grass. - Liladhar Mandloi in 'Vartaman Sahitya.'

Still the one thing that struck me in his early poems continues to amuse. The way he approaches everything abstract that he perceives through senses. Months have a feel of their own - a fragrance that is well defined in the poem; weapons have flashes and table manners that they spoil; and mobile-phone towers disturb the inherent symmetry of the sky. It is now that he sees his house as bare brick and mortar; fails to give the sky a name; and is able to address his ancestors without undue respect or inhibitions. - Swadesh Deepak in preface to the book.

These are remarkable poems of adolescence, memories and violence; many of which have previously appeared in some leading Indian magazines like Chandrabhaga, Indian Literature, Poetry Chain, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), etc. Remarkable for the novelty of the young poet's forms. Remarkable for his honest, fearless voice.

Ordering Information

Pp. 122
Hardback Limited Edition : Rs. 150/-
Flexiback Limited Edition : Rs. 100/-

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Kolkata - 700 045 (India).