Author: Hoshang Merchant Pages: 312 Year of Publication: 2011 Price: HB Rs 350 ISBN: 978-93-5045-012-3 (9789350450123)

About the Author Hoshang Merchant is India’s first openly gay poet. He has published over 20 volumes of poetry with Writers Workshop, India, since 1989. He is a respected Queer Theorist with three critical studies on the subject published by national and international presses and has also published a study of Anais Nin with Writers Workshop (In-discretions: Anais Nin). He translates from Urdu as well. He has been a professor of English at Hyderabad University for the last 24 years.

About the Book: This collection comprises poems published in Stone to Fruit (1989), Yusuf in Memphis (1991), Hotel Golkonda (1992) and The Heart in Hiding (1996). All 4 books were published by Writers Workshop.

Contents I. Stone to Fruit 44 poems II. Yusuf in Memphis 42 poems III. Hotel Golkonda 61 poems IV. The Heart in Hiding 49 poems