Basudhara Roy reviews The Wild Weed: Selected Poems by Paul Kaur, translated by Arvinder Kaur in The Wire.

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These 65 poems in The Wild Weed have been edited and translated from the original Punjabi by Arvinder Kaur with such skill, emotive intimacy and poetic empathy that reincarnating into the form of the target language, they hardly read like translations. There is no fuzziness, no uncertainty, no brittleness or lack of lustre. As soon as one is touched by the book’s gracefulness, the knowledge that these verses were reborn in another language is conveniently and completely forgotten. The reader swims through the collection with complete confidence and fulfilment, grateful that no meaning has been lost.

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Read the complete review here.

https://livewire.thewire.in/out-and-about/books/review-paul-kaur-the-wild-weed/