Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Choudhary doesn’t write about real life in the usual way; his world is strange and frenetic. The holy and the vile walk hand in hand. Sometimes a prayer turns into a protest. Sen has a hard job expressing that tilt, when faith turns into irony.
Basudhara Roy — Excerpt: A poem is read as much by the ear as by the eye. It establishes a relationship with the reader as much by defying as by conforming to poetic norms. Raychaudhuri’s poems stimulate both vision and sound.
Translated by Rohee Dholakia — Excerpt: One afternoon, on your way from work to the post office, you notice Prerna from 20 feet away near the glass pane of the Manhattan bagel cafe.
Translated from the Sanskrit by Louis Hunt — Excerpt: Where else can one find such useless stuff / if not in youth’s ramshackle house?
Nisarg Patel — Excerpt: The four poems translated here are perfect representations of Dabral’s poetics―in their language, their form, and the themes with which they engage.