FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY VIVEK NARAYANAN:
‘Dom Moraes, in the 1970s, quite aptly called Land’s End (1962), [Jussawalla’s debut book of poems], “one of the most brilliant first books since the war”…
For decades, although the poet wrote regularly for newspapers and magazines and remained a beloved and giving presence in Bombay and Indian writing communities, his own work, as happened with Indian poets writing in English, had become half myth, half forgotten, circulating as wrapping for peanuts, in ever-fading spiral-bound photocopies or at best piecemeal, in slim anthologies.This book: a further 150 pages of dazzling, path-breaking “non-fictional” prose has a hundred pages of fiction, including an unfinished novel written in the sixties, and the broadest selection of Jussawalla’s poetry currently available, with some extraordinary new poems.
