Contribution of Adil Jussawalla

Adil Jussawalla is one of the most recognisabe voices in Indian Poetry in English- and as a formal journalist, editor and tarnslator, he has worn many hats. Through the independent small press Clearing House, Jussawalla helped publish some of the most landmark poetry collections in the country. After his second collections, he conspicously remained absent from the publishing scene for almost four decades. In the last five years, though, he has written and published the Sahitya Akademi winning 'I Dreamt a Horse Fell from the Sky'. In his interview with Firstpost, he talks about his absence, the process to his poetry, moratlity and Bombay/Mumbai, which is subject of his latest poem lenghth poem- length book, Gulestan.
He has written two books at poetry, Land's End and Missing Person, edited a seminal anthology of new writing from India and co-edited an anthology of Indian prose in English. He writes a complex poetry- ironic, fragmented, non-linear, formal strenuous- that evokes and indicts a dehumanised, spritually sterile landscape, revaged by contradiction, suspende in a perpetual state of catastrophe.
Jussawalla's highly acclaimed first book, Land's End was published when he was twenty-two. In one of the Interview he has asked about the responsibility of the writer in the time of crises. He replied"I don't know. I think each writer will dealwith the crises in his own way...Maybe I see writing as an activity, atleast for me personally, as linked with a whole life, a whole sense of time."

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