REVIEW OF ADITYA'S WORK AND CONVERSATIONS WITH HIM
Reviews and Conversations
Spanish writer Marta Pombo Salles sees four main concerns driving XXL:
- Social critique of inequality, of the lack of human rights and of the environmental destruction.
- The role of poets and artists as preservers of words and values.
- Harshness.
- Love, human relationships and childhood memories.
'The first thing that would catch your eye while you leaf through the pages of this book is the sharp, post-apocalyptic images that have been ruthlessly painted by the poet with a dash of his uncanny wit.' — Kaushik Sen, Ethos Literary Journal
Indian poet and translator Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker N) reviews XXL for World Literature Today. Living in a country overrun by the machinations of globalization, Shankar builds his wall of poems against it, he opines.
Editor of Modern Literature, Rajesh Subramanian, writes about the unusual language structure, metaphoric themes and cosmopolitan subjects employed in XXL.
In Conversation with Chris Cooper
Aditya Shankar’s “The Shuttlecock In My Shelf” is #255 in the never-ending series called BACKSTORY OF THE POEM by Christal Ann Rice Cooper.
