Magadh Civil Bound “[l]ight scatters through the canopy

“[l]ight scatters through the canopy as a disco ball throws light

These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions

Is zij Zweeds geworden

soms om een taal te krijgen

Who's she kidding

Magadh Civil Bound “[l]ight scatters through the canopyShrikant Verma (trans. Rahul Soni) Magadh, Shrikant Vermas masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and