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