Author: Manik Sharma Pages: 52 Year of Publication: 2012 Price: Rs 100 ISBN: 978-93-5045-031-4 (9789350450314) About the Book Manik Sharma’s poems are lyrical and haunting. His choice of words is delicate and, at the same time, they enter the deepest recesses of the reader’s mind, evoking emotional memories. This emotional connect that Sharma’s words and images forge with his readers makes his poems linger within them, much after one’s first reading. Teaser 

Collar Men 

I crawled through the fashioned streets Warding off eyes with grief pouring out like the mailbag of the postman I never think of He waits under a borrowed umbrella Waiting for the ink on his own letters to dry He carries them around all the time with names in them, he wishes someone knows The asphalt grass cleaves to his boots Like a few torn pages from his book of gods and their coming, He lowers his head and disappears among the dripping collars of grown men that I live inside day and night I stand behind glass doors, It’s not my sun that is setting 

Contents 36 poems