Vihang A. Naik throws light on the life of a city in all its shades, glory, and misery in his City Times and Other Poems. It is an anthology of his intuitive and philosophical poems. The poems are divided in six segments (i.e., "Love Song of a Journey Man" is more or less an inner travelogue. The segments, for instance, "Mirrored Man" is about the other chimeras in the city .The people in the city are capricious like the walk of a crab or the colors of a chameleon. While "The Path of Wisdom" is about the beginning of meditation and knowledge. "At the Shore" records the poet's sense of futility, memory, pain, exile, and alienation at the shore of life). The title of this collection is also the heading for the last of its six sections, in which the city is unfolded as a marketplace, as a heaven for underdogs, and as a seed bed of change and is observed at evening, at midnight, by moonlight, and through fog and haze... ( )

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Vihang A. Naik throws light on the life of a city in all its shades, glory, and misery in his City Times and Other Poems. It is an anthology of his intuitive and philosophical poems. The poems are divided in six segments (i.e., "Love Song of a Journey Man" is more or less an inner travelogue. The segments, for instance, "Mirrored Man" is about the other chimeras in the city .The people in the city are capricious like the walk of a crab or the colors of a chameleon. While "The Path of Wisdom" is about the beginning of meditation and knowledge. "At the Shore" records the poet's sense of futility, memory, pain, exile, and alienation at the shore of life). The title of this collection is also the heading for the last of its six sections, in which the city is unfolded as a marketplace, as a heaven for underdogs, and as a seed bed of change and is observed at evening, at midnight, by moonlight, and through fog and haze.
"The poem titled 'Self Portrait' starts with the diagrammatic sketch with seven blank pages where the reader finds only three words at the tail end of the page. Here the poet envisions in an epiphanic moment, the true nature of ones self when he wakes up, 'to see my / Self' 'discovered beyond thought.' Between 'my self' and 'discovered beyond thought' are five blank pages. The ineffable epiphany of ambiguous. It may either suggest the discovery of a transcendental Self beyond all thought and language or it may suggest the discovery of an Absence beyond the human thought and speech."
-POET (India )

"The poet has something up his sleeve to say beyond the appearances. He does not describe what things are, but what they are stirring to be, in his consciousness. Vihang Naik has proved his credentials through The City Times and Other Poems, and is a poet with a future."
-Indian Book Chronicle

"All his poems are marked by precision and intensity and, of course, typographical experimentation. As a 'First Book of Verse' the volume is remarkable for its creative maturity, and tight control of verse form." -JELF Contour, India

"The poet appears to be quite sincere in his own un self-conscious way"
-The Scoria-the Magazine for the Connoisseur ( )