# The Dancing Bear

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**Author:** Shamman Roshan
 **Pages** 95 **Year of Publication:** 1998 **Price:**
HB Rs 150, FB Rs 60 **ISBN:** HB 81-7595-302-0 (8175953020) FB 81-7595-303-9 (8175953039)

**_ About the Author _**
 Born and brought up in Punjab, Shamman Roshan moved to
Delhi as a graduate student where he worked as a clerk to earn his Master’s degree
from Delhi University. Within a year and a half, he moved to the United States where
he earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1976. He has taught at many universities
in India, Africa, and the United States.

**_ Teaser:_**

_The Dancing Bear_

somewhere in the spirals of inertia
 the dancing bear dances to the speed of stars
over the sun disc and portly plays to a generation of pop-corn and ice-cream to 
show he salutes his master to make a meal of male heart

his cyclical motion propels
 against the dancing bulge as he ambles through the 
clearing vistas

the dancing bear
 still marvels at his claws at his luminous metaphor of stunning
self love