Group Portrait

by Saleem Peeradina

The poems in this volume are marked by toughness and an expressive density. They are somewhat unusual in their focus, which is chiefly on a family (father, mother, two daughters) as the source of joy and fulfillment. Peeradina's poetry also conveys a masculine yet thoroughly unpatronizing view of women in the context of modern, urban India. An exceptionally graphic view of the heady tumult of living in the suburb of a metropolis like Bombay gives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195628683
• ISBN13: 9780195628685
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"