नयी सदी के लिए चयन: पचास कविताएँ

by Vinod Kumar Shukla

विनोद कुमार शुक्ल जी कि कविताओं में से पचास अनूठी कविताओं का संकलन।

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

Published July 3, 1905

About the author

Vinod Kumar Shukla (born 1 January 1937) is a modern Hindi writer known for his surreal style that often borders on magic-realism and sometimes move beyond it. His works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi (A Window lived in a Wall), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi work in 1999.

His first collection of poems Lagbhag Jai Hind was published in 1971. Vah Aadmi Chala Gaya Naya Garam Coat Pehankar Vichar Ki Tarah was his second collection of poems, published in 1981 by Sambhavna Prakashan. Naukar Ki Kameez (The Servant's Shirt) was his first novel, brought out in 1979 by the same publisher. Per Par Kamra (Room on the Tree), a collection of short stories, was brought out in 1988, and another collection of poems in 1992, Sab Kuch Hona Bacha Rahega.

Vinod Kumar Shukla was a guest littérateur at the Nirala Srijanpeeth in AGRA from 1994 to 1996 during which he wrote two novels Khilega To Dekhenge and the refreshing Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi. The latter has been translated into English by Prof. Satti Khanna of Duke University as A Window Lived in a Wall.

Reviews

[Rahul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inki kavitayen ganit ki trha hain. Pyaz ki trha parat dar parat khulti jaati hai. Ya jaiso koi equation solve ho rhi ho.

[Priyank Chauhan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a collection of 50 selected poems from Vinod Kumar Shukla's work. He is one of the most unique voices in contemporary Hindi literature and his writing style has frequently been compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realism, which is a bit misleading because in his novels, while the dream and the reality often give way to each other, nothing magical really happens.

All of this is also true for his poetry. The many poems in this book can be safely divided into two distinct domains - one deals with the human, the other with the nature. Some poems can belong to both but inside those poems, the same distinction can be made again.

The poems are meandering in nature and often seem to lose meaning in the middle, forcing you to reread whatever you might have finished upto that particular point but usually the trick is to just get to the next line which makes the whole thing seem coherent again. There is thoughtful abstraction in these poems, there is childlike raw observation, and there is a longing to be alone in the world so that you can love everyone again, all over.

I have translated six poems from this book on my blog.

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