{"product_id":"prison-days-and-other-poems-9780143426776","title":"Prison Days and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): A. Agyeya\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: India Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: India Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'These poems have appealed to me greatly. They have stuck in my mind . . . And so I commend these poems and perhaps they might move others as they have moved me'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJawaharlal Nehru\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgyeya was jailed as a revolutionary by the British authorities in the early 1930s-an experience that indelibly shaped his literary output. The verses in this collection vividly conjure the horror and tedium of imprisonment: the sound of iron gates clanging shut and the shadows cast by the bars of a cell. But Agyeya's vision never descends into bleakness. Even quarantined, he is constantly aware of the pulse of life radiating outside the prison walls-the lotuses in bloom, the gushing breeze, the mighty seas-as well as the solidarity and compassion that unites those in captivity.\u003cbr\u003eWritten between 1933 and 1938, \u003ci\u003ePrison Days and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e astutely captures the mood before Indian independence, when freedom was still merely a dream. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The grand old man of Hindi literature . . . [Agyeya's] poetry and fiction were only the logical culmination of a multi-faceted career' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndia Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"India Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085870325911,"sku":"9780143426776","price":163.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143426776.webp?v=1769202011","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/prison-days-and-other-poems-9780143426776","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}