The missing man of Indian English poetry,
Adil Jussawalla is the missing man
Of modern Indian English poetry,
The Eliotesque hollow man,
The Audenesque unknown citizen,
A poet of the broken rhythm and length,
Conversational and referential,
A Parsi poet writing the poetry
Of Eklavya and Karna,
A poet of Bombay,
The sea coasts, sea beaches and air ports of it,
The urban space of it,
A poet of the partition people
And the no-men
Living in a no-land.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Memory of a noble heart it seems. In that spirit I likes the poem.