‘I Swallowed the Moon’ The Poetry of Gulzar
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Saba Mahmood Bashir
HarperCollins India
243 pages, Rs 399
Saba Bashir reflects on what makes Gulzar the poet he is. What is his signature style? What are the issues he addresses through his poetry, and what are the recurrent images in it? The book also explores how, through his lyrics for film songs and his poetry, Gulzar brings cinema and literature together.
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