From a Previous Century

By umashankar

Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), poems, collected poems

Description: Book of poems written between 1967 and 1997 by Umashankar, who currently lives in Gurgaon, a New Delhi suburb. Umashankar currently works in archives of indian music. He has been a journalist, film maker, sound recordist and researcher of ancient acoustics. As a young poet in the 70s he was encouraged to write by senior poets like Thomas Stafford and A K Ramanujam.