The Man Who Would Be Queen by Hoshang Merchant

Author:Hoshang Merchant
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789353052508
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2018-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

Letter to father:

You write: ‘You live your life. So why shouldn’t I live mine?’ This in response for my asking news from you. What I hear you saying to me is: ‘You are the mistake of my past and I do not want to meet up with it.’ To that extent your envision is a confession of guilt, a bearing up of your responsibility and to that extent I am freed. Illness has ceased to be an absurd fate and has become instead a generalized possibility for existence.

Second letter to sister:

I am so ashamed of having hurt you. I want to tell you why I did it.

I hate America: I’ll never return to live there. This much is certain. You became a symbolic ‘America’ for me to slay.

I am a poet obsessed with experience—knowing it if for nothing other than the fulfilment of describing it, even the experience of failure. (Especially the latter in a success-crazed world.) I understand as I say in a poem: ‘What has no resale value cannot be funded.’ At the same poem’s end I talk about the ‘stone ripening to cherry 2700 years in Fukien (a press report)’. I want bankers to understand this. No interest can be paid by a poet on the time of his maturing. (Or, for that matter by any man.) It is as if society has gambled with the poet’s life and must pay him.

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