Group Portrait (Oxford India Paperbacks)

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 the lives depicted in these poems a particular immediacy and appeal. Peeradina's voice is one which all readers of modern Indian poetry will wish to hear.

• 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"