I am not a Silent Poet

These poems look at the social fabric of protest and dissent from an insider’s point of view. They bear the stamp of societies going through upheavals with a focus on sharp cleavages in humanity. Guha plays with satire and undercuts it with a subtle sense of despair that pervades his poetry. India’s North East — and the hills where the poet resides — surface as a motif of hope and nostalgia and occasionally retreat. The poetry here is personal and social and at times a painful denial of the present.