Delhi- A City of Echoes (Collection of Poems)

About the Book Delhi-A City of Echoes is Yashoda Bhat's third collection of poems which includes poems written in Delhi during her stay there for 23 years (1976-1999). Her well received earlier two collections of poems entitled Afternoon Poems and Pebbles gave her a recognizable poetic voice. In her third collection, Delhi-A City of Echoes she continues her poetic journey. Finely and subtly sensitive in her poetic sensibility, crips in expression, rich in poetic reflection, this collection of poems weaves varied small, reflective descriptive beautiful pictures of Delhi. The specialty of her poetry is that it is very much deeply embedded in the typical Indian ethos.

Delhi has changed tremendously during the past decade. In the midst of sweeping changes of development also sensitive souls will continue to hear the echoes of history in the rich mega metropolis. Perhaps, Delhi-A City of Echoes will become one more echo in the vibrand large, chorus of varied echoes.

About the Author Dr. Yashoda Bhat (1933- ), former Senior Reader in English, K.M. College, Delhi University, Delhi is a writer with several facets. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell: A Comparative Study of Satire in their novels (Sterling Publishers, Delhi) and VS. Naipaul: An Introduction (B.R. Publishing Corporation, Delhi) are her research works.

A gifted translator and poet, she has translated the Jnanpith Award winner Kannada writer Late Dr. V.K. Gokak's novel Samarasve Jeevana into English in an abridged form. Afternoon Poems and Pebbles are her collections of poems.

Delhi: A City of Echoes, her third collection of poems is published now. She takes keen interest in women's studies and has edited two volumes of papers presented at seminars and they include her contributions also; entitled The Image of Women in Indian Literature and Beyond the Threshold. Her own book entitled Women reveals her thoughts on women-their lives and issues.

Yashoda Bhat writers in Kannada too; Kannada is her mother tongue. After settling down in Dharwad her home town after her retirement, she has published three books and edited two. She and her husband Sh. N.P. Bhat have been running a cultural forum in Dharwad called Avani Rasikar Ranga, which has become very popular over the last decade. She also edits a monthly magazine called Avani in Kannada which served as the Newsletter of their forum called Avani Rasikar Ranga. It also contains articles on literary topics. This is also well received.

Preface Delhi, a city of Echoes, is my third collection of poems, Afternoon Poems, (Poetry Time Publications, Behrampur, Orissa, 1985) my first collection came as an outburst of creativity, sudden and surprising, a decade after we shifted to Delhi in 1976. It was the afternoon of my life and this burst of creativity was fresh and it opened up a new vista in my mental horizon. Encouraged by the response to Afternoon Poems, I continued to explore the world of creativity which resulted in the publication of my second collection entitled Pebbles (B.R. Publishing Corporation Delhi, 1991). I had an opportunity to work as an academic counsellor in creative writing in English, a course conducted by IGNOU Delhi and it kept my creative experience alive. I received good response to my second collection too. Some of the opinions about these two collections of poems have been published in this book. **Contents and Sample Pages**