Confronting Love : Poems

by Jerry & Subramaniam Pinto (Editor)

BOOKS

Genres: Poetry, India

96 pages, Paperback

Published May 24, 2005

Reviews

[Tanuj Solanki]

Four poems here - out of a total 46 well-chosen ones - are seven star masterpieces. Those of Sujata Bhatt, Dom Moraes, Arundhati Subramanian, and Arun Kolatkar.

A thing to cherish again and again.

[Nirav]

One of the best read anthologies of poems ever. Jerry and Arundhati have compiled a wonderful range of poems on love from some of the best Indian authors including jeet Thayil and Vikram Seth. There are two poems by the editors themselves. I feel this is also one of the most underrated anthologies I've ever come across to. A must read and delve into the world of these great minds who speak about confronting love to someone.

[Kshitiz Goliya]

A good collection of poems looking at love from different perspectives. The shortest among them and one of my favorite was by none other than Vikram Seth:

My love, I love your breasts. I love your nose.
I love your accent and I love your toes.
I am your slave. One word, and I obey.
But please don't slurp your coffee in that way.

[Abhishek Shetty]

I read this anthology after attending a workshop by Jerry Pinto at the David Sassoon Library in March 2026. I walked to Kitab Khana and bought a poetry collection edited by him. I read this on the train ride back and was overjoyed to see the many different ways to look at love by poets from India. I also really enjoyed the fact that it looks at love in a variety of different forms and not just romantic love.

[Jessica]

Contains poetry by Jerry Pinto and Arundathi Subramaniam (co-editors) and Kamala Das, Meena Alexander, Manohar Shetty, Eunice de Souza and about twenty other Indian poets.

[Prerna Vijayeni]

The carefully collated anthology of interesting lesser known love poems by 46 modern indian poets is a delight to read. From poems about falling in love to sustaining love & mapping it's twisted trajectory, all these poets have something fresh to say about the age old human fallacy ❤