![]() He edited Tiny Judges Shall Arrive (AHRC, Hong Kong), a selection of KG Sankara Pillai’s poems translated into English. This goes for the only beings who can live with a hell inside of them, and still manage to write heavenly things for those in need to read. Aditya Shankar is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet, flash fiction author, and translator. To Neruda for cheating on himself so many times. ![]() To Becquer and Espino for dying so young. To Quiroga drinking the poison of his sorrow at a hospital. To Unamuno craving to believe in something impossible. This goes to Lorca isolated, hiding in a closet in New York. To those who loved and hated the wrong person. To those who know that suffering is the most humane feeling there is. ![]() Tho those who the only answer they seek from a god is if there's eternal life for their loved ones, because they know there's no space for them in that paradise. To the brave ones who fight darkness with darkness. To those who carry hell in their head and a graveyard of lost love stories in their heart Books: After Seeing (2006), Party Poopers (2014), and XXL (Dhauli Books, 2018). ![]() His work has appeared in international journals and anthologies of repute and translated into Malayalam and Arabic. To those who decide to carry the world on their own. Aditya Shankar is an Indian poet, flash fiction author, and translator. ![]()
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