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Vinod Kumar Shukla: Two Poems
Vinod Kumar Shukla
Translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
‘The truth is, though no one says it, / They’re all worried about their children.’
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
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‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
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‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
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‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
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‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Vinod Kumar Shukla
Vinod Kumar Shukla lives in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, where he has taught at the Indira Gandhi Agricultural University. He has published several collections of poetry and four novels, including Deewar mein ek khidki rehti thi (A Window Lived in a Wall).
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is the translator of The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry and Songs of Kabir. His Collected Poems: 1969 - 2014 was published in 2014.
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