POET VERSES DELHI
Mar 07, 2020
2 minutes
—Sonal Shah
The last line of Agha Shahid Ali’s poem ‘Chandni Chowk, Delhi’ gives Akhil Katyal’s new book its title, but the entire collection seems impelled by the poem’s opening command—“Swallow this summer street…”. In these Delhi poems, Katyal imbibes the streets and seasons of the capital city in order to, as he says, “make sense of it”.
Katyal has been making sense of Delhi ever
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