A COLLECTION OF DEEPLY FELT POEMS THAT REASSERT THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF THE ORDINARY

Sarabjeet is one of my favourite contemporary poets. In these roof-like poems we come face to face with a spiritual philosophy that stirs us to re-read, rest, return, remember and rehabilitate our relationship with life and the living.—SUMANA ROY

[These] spare, lyric poems have silence and time built into their walls. They know both light and dark, and outside their window sits a green bird called transformation.—TISHANI DOSHI

These poems of rapt observance are intensely fresh and alive.—KATHARINE TOWERS

The juxtapositions are arresting and original. These poems carry the voice of perennial youth and the experience of a poet in his prime.—MANI RAO

These are poems of deep spirituality and visionary experience. They are like the Pahari artist Nainsukh’s paintings in their delicate beauty and robust wisdom.—RANJIT HOSKOTE

Quietude is the hallmark of his poetry. The pellucid poems in this book possess the lilt of clouds hovering over the Himalayas.—DEVI PRASAD MISHRA

About the Author

Sarabjeet Garcha’s five books of poems include A Clock in the Far Past and Lullaby of the Ever-Returning. His poems have been translated into German, Spanish, Russian, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi and Hindi.