Vihang A. Naik

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City Times (2014) 3 copies

Poetry Manifesto ( New & Selected poems ) (2010) 2 copies

Jeevangeet (2015) 2 copies

Making A Poem (2004) 1 copy

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Canonical name: Vihang A. Naik
Legal name: Naik, Vihang
Other names: Vihang Ashokbhai Naik
Vihang
Naik
V A. Naik
Birthdate: 1969-09-02
Gender: male
Nationality: India
Birthplace: Surat, Gujarat. India
Places of residence: Surat, Gujarat. India
Baroda, Gujarat. India
Ahmedabad, Gujarat. India
Prantij, Gujarat. India
Ambaji, Gujarat. India
Education: The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Occupations: teaching (college)
poet
translator
Awards and honors: "Limca Book of Records ( Poetry, 2016 )", "Michel Madhusudan Prize ( 1998 )"
Short biography: Vihang A Naik was born in Surat, Gujarat on September 2, 1969. He is India’s contemporary poet writing in English. His poems have appeared in such literary journals as Indian P.E.N.,Indian Literature : A Sahitya Akademi Bi-Monthly Journal, Kavya Bharati, POESIS: A Journal of Poetry Circle, Mumbai, The Journal of The Poetry Society (India), The Journal of Indian Writing In English, The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, The Poetry Chain among other significant journals. He is educated from The M.S. University of Baroda with Philosophy, Indian and English Literature.

Four collections of his poetry have been published: Poetry Manifesto: New & Selected Poems (2010), Making A Poem (2004), City Times and Other Poems (1993). His Gujarati collection of poems include Jeevangeet (Gujarati Poems) published by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir (Ahmedabad) in 2001, dedicated to the cause of victims of Gujarat Earthquake of January 26, 2001. He also translates poetry written in the Gujarati language into English, including his own Gujarati language poems.

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City Times &Amp; Other Poems by Vihang A. Naik

City Times and Other Poems is a small collection of poetry by Vihand Naik. Naik is a contemporary Indian poet, translator, literary and art critic. He read for a BA in English studies and Philosophy and took an MA in English Literature and Indian Literature in translation at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Many small poetry collections and new or foreign poets have slipped by me in the past. Last night I was writing back a forth to a friend discussing authors and why people need to center around the same old writers. Why not something new and different? Here is something different and something that stands on its own against the best of the establish poets.

City Times and Other Poems is an unintimidating slim volume. The poet is from India, but there is no hint of this in the writing. Instead, the sparse words move off the page like electrons creating great images in the TV screen of our brains. To be honest, it is an incredible transformation of words to imagery and feeling. I am at a delightful loss of words to explain it or say more. It needs to be experienced. Simply said, “Read it. It’s like magic.”… (more)

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City Times & Other Poems by Vihang Naik

Vihang A. Naik throws light on the life of a city in all its shades, glory, and misery in his City Times and Other Poems. It is an anthology of his intuitive and philosophical poems. The poems are divided in six segments (i.e., "Love Song of a Journey Man" is more or less an inner travelogue. The segments, for instance, "Mirrored Man" is about the other chimeras in the city .The people in the city are capricious like the walk of a crab or the colors of a chameleon. While "The Path of Wisdom" is about the beginning of meditation and knowledge. "At the Shore" records the poet's sense of futility, memory, pain, exile, and alienation at the shore of life). The title of this collection is also the heading for the last of its six sections, in which the city is unfolded as a marketplace, as a heaven for underdogs, and as a seed bed of change and is observed at evening, at midnight, by moonlight, and through fog and haze...… (more)

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EditorsChoice | 3 other reviews | Mar 26, 2014 |

City Times & Other Poems ( Paperback & eBook ) by Vihang Naik

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Vihang A. Naik throws light on the life of a city in all its shades, glory, and misery in his City Times and Other Poems. It is an anthology of his intuitive and philosophical poems. The poems are divided in six segments (i.e., "Love Song of a Journey Man" is more or less an inner travelogue. The segments, for instance, "Mirrored Man" is about the other chimeras in the city .The people in the city are capricious like the walk of a crab or the colors of a chameleon. While "The Path of Wisdom" is about the beginning of meditation and knowledge. "At the Shore" records the poet's sense of futility, memory, pain, exile, and alienation at the shore of life). The title of this collection is also the heading for the last of its six sections, in which the city is unfolded as a marketplace, as a heaven for underdogs, and as a seed bed of change and is observed at evening, at midnight, by moonlight, and through fog and haze.
"The poem titled 'Self Portrait' starts with the diagrammatic sketch with seven blank pages where the reader finds only three words at the tail end of the page. Here the poet envisions in an epiphanic moment, the true nature of ones self when he wakes up, 'to see my / Self' 'discovered beyond thought.' Between 'my self' and 'discovered beyond thought' are five blank pages. The ineffable epiphany of ambiguous. It may either suggest the discovery of a transcendental Self beyond all thought and language or it may suggest the discovery of an Absence beyond the human thought and speech."
-POET (India )

"The poet has something up his sleeve to say beyond the appearances. He does not describe what things are, but what they are stirring to be, in his consciousness. Vihang Naik has proved his credentials through The City Times and Other Poems, and is a poet with a future."
-Indian Book Chronicle

"All his poems are marked by precision and intensity and, of course, typographical experimentation. As a 'First Book of Verse' the volume is remarkable for its creative maturity, and tight control of verse form." -JELF Contour, India

"The poet appears to be quite sincere in his own un self-conscious way"
-The Scoria-the Magazine for the Connoisseur… (more)

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Making A Poem by Vihang Naik

Making A Poem is a powerful affecting collection of poetry that sheds a fascinating light upon the writing process and poet's personal aesthetics. These are eloquent pieces where the poet displays a confident command of the poetic form to bring his ideas and observations to life. The pieces that ponder the reality of poetic expression are perhaps most fascinating. Their refexivity results in a most engaging colection of poems. Making A Poem is a intuitive, thoughtful and creative pieces that work together as a cohesive collection.… (more)

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