Undecember : The Thirteenth Month
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About the Book
A solar year consists of twelve months. But if a lunar year has to correspond to a solar year, then an extra month is required. This leap month is 'Undecember'.
...] This book represents a month of thirty days, divided into two sections: Sukla Paksha and Krishna Paksha - the Hindu demarcations for the waxing and waning phases of the moon - each comprising fifteen poems for the fifteen days of each phase.
These thirty poems convey the same ethos and sensibility of the previous book - being intensely personal and yet aesthetically accessible. The poems continue their play on Sringara Rasa of love and beauty mediated by the sense of viraha.
A ReviewAmit Shankar Saha is the Koh-i-Noor of poets, a priceless Indian diamond that shines most brilliantly among English writers]. Who else could transform a missing tooth into a multifaceted meditation on mortality and identity? Or invoke the many-named splendors of his native land, and also invoke a cherished love life, via an imaginary tour through his own "country of rhododendrons," all in less than twenty short lines? Nearly every poem in this book is a treasure I highly recommend it.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781683151265
- ISBN-10: 1683151267
- Publisher: Culicidae Press, LLC
- Publish Date: May 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.16 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.26 pounds
- Page Count: 78
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