The Life of Bhupi Sherchan Poetry and Politics in Post-Rana Nepal

InThe Life of Bhupi Sherchan: Poetry and Politics in Post-Rana Nepal,Michael J. Hutt chronicles the life of the well-known Nepali poet, Bhupi Sherchan, whose poems are closely interwoven with the social, cultural, and political milieu of the region. Including a generous sampling of Bhupi Sherchan's poetry in English translation, the volume offers insights into the poet's life as a participant and a commentator on the processes of societal change. The around 60 poems in English translation are accompanied by detailed footnotes and the poems are arranged to coincide with the periods of the poet's life that produced them. With biographical information for the book drawn from both published sources as well as interviews with Bhupi Sherchan's friends, wives, offspring, and other relations, the volume includes around 40 rare photographs.

Michael J. Hutt is Professor of Nepali and Himalayan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Preface Introduction
1. Thak Khola, the Thakalis and the Sherchans
2. Hitman Subba's Wayward Son
3. So Here in my Courtyard
4. In the Shadow of Machapuchare
5. A Blind Man on a Revolving Chair
6. On your Lips I See a Proposal
7. Long Live Birendra!
8. Living's Much Harder o Bibliography
Poems A New Jhyaure Song o Woman o The Flower and the Thorn o A New Scale o The History of Darkness o An Autumn Scene from a Window o My Courtyard o The Candle Flame o Always Always in My Dream o We o My Country o Midday and the Cold Sleep o My Country's History Seems Wrong to Me o A Blind Man on a Revolving Chair o The Clocktower o A Banyan in a Pot o The Dreams of My Past o Oh Moon!
o In Memory of the Martyrs o Pokhra o Letter to Ho-Chi-Minh o This is a Land of Hearsay and Rumour o Sun without Fever, Sky without Burning, Lake of Contentment o New Road at Dusk: A Festival of Life o New Year o Under a Falling Hillside o To the Children of Quails, Partridges and Sacrificial Buffaloes o Bhairahawa o A Poem o A Dove of Two Delicate White Hands: Your Namaste o Cold Ashtray o A Cursed House o Me o Night, Kathmandu, Dawn o Monkeys of the Cold War o Bedside Lamp o A Cruel Blow at Dawn o A Life without Honour o From an Empty Bed o My Life like a Mountain Pasture o 'Bhupi' Sherchan
o The Month of Asar o On Life's Dark Street o My Friends o A Kiss o A Question o A New Story from the Old House of a Poor Man o Scotch Whisky and the Blood Bank o Life! o ? o Believe: That Dream will Surely be Fulfilled o The Memory of a Dead Deaf-Mute o A Resolution o To be a Poet o Democracy Day o Perhaps o Looking for Snakes o When Night Falls o Long Live Birendra!