I Even Regret Night by Lalbihari Sharma and translated by Rajiv Mohabir

This is poetry from India.

I Even Regret Night by Lalbihari Sharma translated by Rajiv Mohabir is published by Kaya Press. This is a Book originally written in Hindi. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781885030597E12.

I Even Regret Night, by Lalbihari Sharma and translated by Rajiv Mohabir from Hindi, brings Hindi-language poetry from India into English through diasporic Bhojpuri/Hindi memory, indenture history, and regret carried through night. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for night, regret, labor, and the ancestral ache of migration and survival, not as a fixed lesson about India. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. I Even Regret Night belongs in the translated poetry library because it expands the Hindi shelf through Caribbean-Indian historical memory and intimate loss.

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