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"The
Spiny Babbler bird was considered extinct for 106 years. It has
been rediscovered and is now endemic to this country." But
to be more realistic, Spiny Babbler is one hand that’s been putting
on a regular effort to promote English literature in Nepal. Its
effort has come mostly in the form of poetry. This time, too, it’s
a collection of poems Death,
in memory of late Capt. L. B. Limbu (1937-1998) — father of active
hands and minds at Babbler, twins Param Meyangbo and Para Limbu.
Para’s
At your window: "You’ve gone. Never to open doors past
midnight," and Mani Rai’s Death of a friend:
"He was a dresser. Fussy about food. Impatient with fools.
Quick to anger," depicts the loss in two different perspectives.
Other contributors to the collection are Wanda Barford, Greta Rana,
Pallav Ranjan, Johann Peter Hebel, T. M. Collins, Cortney Davis,
Attiya Dawood and Adam Johnson. There are two translations of the
works of Laxmi Prasad Devkota and Sharada Sharma. |
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