# Millennium Blues

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**Author:** N. P. Singh
 **Pages:** 102 **Year of Publication:** 2004 **Price:**
HB Rs 180, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 81-8157-276-9 (8181572769) FB 81-8157-277-7 (8181572777)

**_About the Author_**
 N. P. Singh was born in 1934 in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
He travelled all over the state with his father, who was a government servant. He
completed his M.A. in English from Agra University in 1955. He received his Ph.D.
in 1968. He taught English language and literature at Rajdhani College, University
of Delhi, from 1968 to 1979. He went on to teach at the Institute of Language Studies,
Addis Ababa University, from 1979 to 1984. He returned to Rajdhani College in 1984
and retired in 1999. He believes that his stay in Addis Ababa instigated him to 
write poems in English.

**_Teaser_**

_A Woman in Love_

A fragile
 Bottle-green leaf Curled And Blushed like a bride.

The sun
 Her brazen paramour Burnt The coy bridge With his hungry Fingers.

The coy bride
 Shed her blush Soaked the moving fire Of her wild paramour And spread
out Like a woman in love.

**_Contents_**
 A Woman in Love / 11 The Crooked Hunchback / 12 Mandir and Masjid/
13 Wings / 14 Delhi — 2000 A. D. / 15 The Sea / 16 Life / 17 The Leader / 18 Date
Rape / 19 You and Me / 20 Words / 21 Virgin Snow / 21 The Elephant’s Feet / 22 A
Frail Figure / 23 Fog / 24 Illusion and Reality / 25 The Heir of Aryabhatt / 26 
The Grey Elephants / 28 The Sleeping Woman / 30 A Sparrow / 31 The Wife / 32 Terrible
Twins / 35 The Sun / 36 The Third World War / 37 The Land’s End / 38 The Festival
of Blood / 39 The Crane / 40 Shimla at Night / 41 Third Eye / 42 College Girls /
43 Two Wives / 44 Jhansi! Jhansi! / 45 The Ordeal / 46 An Old Woman / 47 Ravana 
Is Burnt / 48 My Fair Lady / 49 A Woman / 50 The Eagle / 51 The Tall Woman / 52 
The Sparrow / 53 Hiroshima / 54 RBS / 55 Fifty Years of Independence / 56 A Woman/
58 Nature’s Wrath / 59 A Mouse / 60 Monica and Stefi / 62 The Other Woman / 63 A
Candle / 64 Stairs / 65 Rain in Early June / 66 The Crane / 67 Memories / 68 A Cold
Wave / 70 A Wild Call / 71 You / 72 The Bridegroom / 73 The Voice of the Tree / 
74 Two Young Women / 75 The Butterfly / 76 The Professor / 77 The Ganga at Hardwar/
78 The King’s Dream / 79 An Old Friend / 79 Miracles / 81 Two Faces of Delhi / 83
A Wife / 85 I Have a Dream / 88 Dewali — 2001 / 90 Male and Female / 91 Yellow Leaves/
93 A Freak / 94 The House of God / 95 India Poetry Festival — 2003 / 96 Opening 
Batsman / 98 She / 99 The Deer / 100 The Temple / 101 Haiku / 102