Millennium Blues
Description:
Pages: 102
Year of Publication: 2004
Price: HB Rs 180, FB Rs 100
ISBN:
HB 81-8157-276-9 (8181572769)
FB 81-8157-277-7 (8181572777)
About the Author:
N. P. Singh was born in 1934 in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He travelled all over the state with his father, who was a government servant. He completed his M.A. in English from Agra University in 1955. He received his Ph.D. in 1968. He taught English language and literature at Rajdhani College, University of Delhi, from 1968 to 1979. He went on to teach at the Institute of Language Studies, Addis Ababa University, from 1979 to 1984. He returned to Rajdhani College in 1984 and retired in 1999. He believes that his stay in Addis Ababa instigated him to write poems in English.
Teaser:
A Woman in Love
A fragile
Bottle-green leaf
Curled
And
Blushed like a bride.
The sun
Her brazen paramour
Burnt
The coy bridge
With his hungry
Fingers.
The coy bride
Shed her blush
Soaked the moving fire
Of her wild paramour
And spread out
Like a woman in love.
Contents:
A Woman in Love / 11
The Crooked Hunchback / 12
Mandir and Masjid / 13
Wings / 14
Delhi — 2000 A. D. / 15
The Sea / 16
Life / 17
The Leader / 18
Date Rape / 19
You and Me / 20
Words / 21
Virgin Snow / 21
The Elephant’s Feet / 22
A Frail Figure / 23
Fog / 24
Illusion and Reality / 25
The Heir of Aryabhatt / 26
The Grey Elephants / 28
The Sleeping Woman / 30
A Sparrow / 31
The Wife / 32
Terrible Twins / 35
The Sun / 36
The Third World War / 37
The Land’s End / 38
The Festival of Blood / 39
The Crane / 40
Shimla at Night / 41
Third Eye / 42
College Girls / 43
Two Wives / 44
Jhansi! Jhansi! / 45
The Ordeal / 46
An Old Woman / 47
Ravana Is Burnt / 48
My Fair Lady / 49
A Woman / 50
The Eagle / 51
The Tall Woman / 52
The Sparrow / 53
Hiroshima / 54
RBS / 55
Fifty Years of Independence / 56
A Woman / 58
Nature’s Wrath / 59
A Mouse / 60
Monica and Stefi / 62
The Other Woman / 63
A Candle / 64
Stairs / 65
Rain in Early June / 66
The Crane / 67
Memories / 68
A Cold Wave / 70
A Wild Call / 71
You / 72
The Bridegroom / 73
The Voice of the Tree / 74
Two Young Women / 75
The Butterfly / 76
The Professor / 77
The Ganga at Hardwar / 78
The King’s Dream / 79
An Old Friend / 79
Miracles / 81
Two Faces of Delhi / 83
A Wife / 85
I Have a Dream / 88
Dewali — 2001 / 90
Male and Female / 91
Yellow Leaves / 93
A Freak / 94
The House of God / 95
India Poetry Festival — 2003 / 96
Opening Batsman / 98
She / 99
The Deer / 100
The Temple / 101
Haiku / 102