White, Blue and Other Poems
Description:
Pages: 52
Year of Publication: 2012
Price: Rs 100
ISBN: 978-93-5045-032-1 (9789350450321)
About the Author:
Smruthi Bala Kannan was born in Chennai in 1991. At present, she is pursuing an integrated Master’s degree in English Studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Madras). This is her first collection of poetry.
About the Book:
In her first book of poetry, Smruthi displays a maturity far beyond her age. One is struck by the simplicity of her expression, her assimilation and analysis of experiences and her sensitive attention to detail.
Teaser:
Molten
There are thoughts,
that you scoop out of yourself,
leaving behind gnawing a cavity,
and some others
that you tuck off to sleep.
It is those few moments,
by the left side window seat of a local bus;
a gentle gush of wind;
a strand of hair tickling your eyebrow;
that melt you
into a certain anonymity.
Only
those gnawing cavities
and waking thoughts
attempt to live
with a certain significant other.
Contents:
The Life / 11
History / 12
A Ruler’s Margin / 13
Sketching the Wind / 14
Define poet / 15
Serendipity / 16
You and I / 17
Megalophobia / 18
Corpo-real / 19
Give in / 20
Sub: Request for a poetry reading / 21
Go Away / 22
Allusion / 23
Dispensability cloak / 25
Diurn / 26
Cloud Messenger / 27
Full stop / 29
Molten / 30
Stalkless / 31
Ego / 32
Thank you / 33
Like This / 34
Awe / 35
A Broken Marriage / 36
Pixel music / 37
Complex / 38
Open Mind / 39
The strange tract / 40
To poetry … / 41
Occupational hazard / 42
The Table Across / 43
Paternity leave / 44
Litmus; Writing war off / 45
The Untitled Now / 46
Serial Killer / 47