Hoshang Merchant: 2 books

'And at night they close Rumi's museum(for this is what they call his mosque since Ataturk)And a Sufi in green praying at the doorBought a poor vendor's entire store of tomatoesSo he would not sleep hungry(And he wasn't even a Turk, he was American' The cloth is torn Come love, bring me a needle The...

Hoshang Merchant is one of the leading poets in India today. A writer capable of transforming the way we conceive of poetry, this short collection will give you a taste of the variety of topics he covers ruminations on death and homosexual love, reflections on the art of writing, to spaces where the...