This book chronicles the life of the well-known Nepali poet, Bhupi Sherchan. The narrative, aided by sizeable selection of Sherchan's poems in English translation, offer rare insights into the poet's work and the socio-cultural and political milieu in post-Rana Nepal. INDICE: Preface Introduction; 1.: Thak Khola, the Thakalis and the Sherchans; 2.: Hitman Subba's Wayward Son; 3.: So Here in my Courtyard; 4.: In theShadow of Machapuchare; 5.: A Blind Man on a Revolving Chair; 6.: On your Lips I See a Proposal; 7.: Long Live Birendra!; 8.: Living's Much Harder o Bibliography; Poems A New Jhyaure Song o Woman o The Flower and the Thorn o A New Scale o The History of Darkness o An Autumn Scene from a Window o My Courtyard oThe Candle Flame o Always Always in My Dream o We o My Country o Midday and the Cold Sleep o My Country's History Seems Wrong to Me o A Blind Man on a Revolving Chair o The Clocktower o A Banyan in a Pot o The Dreams of My Past o Oh Moon!; o In Memory of the Martyrs o Pokhra o Letter to Ho-Chi-Minh o This is aLand of Hearsay and Rumour o Sun without Fever, Sky without Burning, Lake of Contentment o New Road at Dusk: A Festival of Life o New Year o Under a Falling Hillside o To the Children of Quails, Partridges and Sacrificial Buffaloes oBhairahawa o A Poem o A Dove of Two Delicate White Hands: Your Namaste o ColdAshtray o A Cursed House o Me o Night, Kathmandu, Dawn o Monkeys of the Cold War o Bedside Lamp o A Cruel Blow at Dawn o A Life without Honour o From an Empty Bed o My Life like a Mountain Pasture o 'Bhupi' Sherchan; o The Month of Asar o On Life's Dark Street o My Friends o A Kiss o A Question o A New Story from the Old House of a Poor Man o Scotch Whisky and the Blood Bank o Life! o ?o Believe: That Dream will Surely be Fulfilled o The Memory of a Dead Deaf-Mute o A Resolution o To be a Poet o Democracy Day o Perhaps o Looking for Snakes o When Night Falls o Long Live Birendra!
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806827-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés