Selected Poems Gulzar

One of my favorite couplets in the collection plays on this:

This collection forces you to slow down. You cannot skim Gulzar. If you try, you’ll miss the way he bends grammar to create a new reality. He famously uses the future tense to describe the past, creating a haunting sense of what could have been . Selected Poems Gulzar

Selected Poems Gulzar is not a definitive tombstone of a finished career; it is a living, breathing garden. Gulzar, now in his late 80s, continues to write. He continues to scratch verses on the back of prescriptions. He continues to find metaphors in the dust of the Delhi winter. One of my favorite couplets in the collection