Vivek Narayanan is the author of two poetry collections, Universal Beach and Life and Times of Mr S. “Une Cave, Une Caverne, Un Trou” is a long poem from his current manuscript-in-progress-a “writing through” of Valmiki’s Ramayana, the foundational sanskrit epic. Narayanan was a 2013–14 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. (updated 4/2015)