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The book is a collection of some new and selected 53 regular poems, 41 tanka and 39 haiku to provide a glimpse of R.K.Singh's poetry published over the last three decades.  The Indian English poet has already brought out 14 volumes, including  My Silence and Other Selected Poems (1996), Above the Earth's Green (1997), The River Returns (2006), Sexless Solitude and Other Poems (2009), and Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010). To quote from the Preface of hte poet's new volume, "Life is too real to be believed, yet we must keep dreaming and try to live with a resonance of what we think while we touch various levels of reality—political, social, personal, or spiritual—and  be ourselves.   "Genuine poetry happens as an event  to  be truthful, clear, courageous, and honest to oneself; to be open about things one often...
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The book is a collection of some new and selected 53 regular poems, 41 tanka and 39 haiku to provide a glimpse of R.K.Singh's poetry published over the last three decades.  The Indian English poet has already brought out 14 volumes, including  My Silence and Other Selected Poems (1996), Above the Earth's Green (1997), The River Returns (2006), Sexless Solitude and Other Poems (2009), and Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010).

To quote from the Preface of hte poet's new volume,

"Life is too real to be believed, yet we must keep dreaming and try to live with a resonance of what we think while we touch various levels of reality—political, social, personal, or spiritual—and  be ourselves.

 

"Genuine poetry happens as an event  to  be truthful, clear, courageous, and honest to oneself; to be open about things one often tries to conceal. Poetry provides an opportunity for expressing ones intimate moments with the same passion as while talking about the interwoven outer realities.

 

"I also view it as the expression of cosmic, organic, erotic life, creating its own forms, expressing itself and, in being expressed, finds its voice. 

 

"My experience convinces me that we are not limited by what we are, but we are limited by what we are not.  Poetry becomes a means to overcome this limitation, and thus, allows us not only to know ourselves but also to expand on what we are. 

 

"This means we should remain open to healthy revisions that we can make to our way of thinking, and incorporate new perspectives into our outlook.  In other words, we should  not let our own rigidity destroy our potential, but rather we should evince a forward-looking, tolerant, and open mindset if we wish to create future.

 

"I don’t know if my poetry fits in what I think at the moment but poetry does help us traverse the boundaries of hesitation to see the joy of fulfillment." (pp. 7-8).

 

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About Ram Krishna

Born and brought up in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Ram Krishna Singh has been teaching English language skills to students of earth and mineral sciences at a leading technical university in India for over three decades. He has also been writing poetry, especially haiku...

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