# Collected Works Volume IV: The Book of Chapbooks

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- Published: 2019-08-23T01:04:22+00:00
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**Author:** Hoshang Merchant[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Collected-Works-Volume-IV.jpeg)
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Editor:** Akshaya K. Rath **Pages:** 240 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:**
Rs 700 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-188-5 (9789350451885)

_**About the Author**_
 Hoshang Merchant is India’s first openly gay poet. He has
published over 20 volumes of poetry with **Writers Workshop**, India, since 1989.
He is a respected Queer Theorist with three critical studies on the subject published
by national and international presses and has also published a study of Anais Nin
with **Writers Workshop** (_**In-discretions: Anais Nin**_). He translates from 
Urdu as well. He retired from the University of Hyderabad after 25 years of teaching
English, in 2012.

_**About the Book**_
 Hoshang says this volume will be the last of his _**Collected
Works**_.

_**Contents**_

I. _Flower to Flame_ / 11
 42 poems

II. _Bellagio Blues_ / 115
 41 poems

III. _Homage to Jibanananda Das_ / 185
 17 poems

IV. _Sufi Tree_ / 211
 22 poems