'Vikram Seth's poems...should have an impact far beyond much noisier pieces; for when did we last see a volume in which the poet's eye is on what is objectively before him, rather than on the intricacies of his own sensibility? Seth knows (not as a tourist, but from the inside) four cultures: his native India; England; California; communist China. Here he inspects them all respectfully and eagerly, and without partisanship or facile ironies balances each of them against the others.' - Donald Davie
- ISBN10 0670058475
- ISBN13 9780670058471
- Publish Date 13 October 2005 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 March 2013
- Publish Country IN
- Publisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
- Imprint Viking (India)
- Format Paperback
- Language English