The Circling Canopy

By Bhisham Bherwani

This collection shows the range of Bhisham Bherwani's work, from poems of quick, epigrammatic sharpness, to dramatic monologues that bring to life moments in past cultures. There is a vision of both history's atrocities and its splendors. The Circling Canopy connects the present with the pressures and gifts of the past, in poems about building, fertility, and confessions of struggle, sometimes failure. Enriched by an intimate sense of art and thought, Indian, classical, modern, Bherwani's poems incorporate a sly humor, sometimes an edge of satire. Robert Morgan, author of Terroir The Circling Canopy is a gem, taken from nature-the world's and our own -and perfectly struck. Light shimmers everywhere in the lines. Bhisham Bherwani's book is one that I wish I had written. Carol Frost, author of Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences Erudite, sensate, but above all spare and controlled, The Circling Canopy does not need to be loud to be resonant, or gaudy to be radiant. It is pervaded throughout by a "stillness, / which exacts answers, in silence." Even the satiric "Orbis" is grave and pellucid, as Bherwani is a poet who insists that all must be in the weave of an alert and disciplined art. Nicholas Birns, author of Theory After Theory

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600472842
• ISBN13: 9781600472848
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cayuga Lake Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"