![]() One of the most endearing traits of Nalini’s poetry is her ability to combine sensuality, sexuality and humor to give the reader a uniquely new experience. ![]() If you would only sit still long enough and keep your hands off me I suppose after ten I could start counting on your tips This Sigo gives us a glimpse into her very subtle sense of humor.Īlas counting sijo syllables, I have run out of fingers It is willingness to experiment with diverse forms of poetry, even some from other lingual traditions that broadens a poet’s scope. Perhaps among the more difficult of languages, even for a trilingual person such as she is, of which to grasp the essence. Nalini shows an excellent grasp of the spirit of various forms as well as their structure in her numerous exercises of Japanese forms. Several such as evidenced by herĪre included in the collection. Nalini does not hesitate to try forms of poetry from beyond her native land to add to her repertoire of expressiveness. Poems herein are a tribute to the power acquired and released by a voice that find itself part of two worlds-one the mundane solitude of aloneness realizing there is someone inside who doesn’t belong only there and the intimation that it is part of a greater world of realization that stretches back through time and connects to the timeless world of understanding. ![]() The book is roughly divided in five sections, with a short poem setting the mood for the poems that followed.Īnd for a book all of 95 or so pages, there are plenty of emotional nuances and moods in this very warm, sometimes, sizzling and exciting collection. They come to me some days and if I am ready I write them down otherwise they are lost,’ (A Doppelganger in My House) In her own words- ‘The best poems are those that write themselves. As a person who has lived most of her life within her mind I lay no claim to have any intimate knowledge of the doppelganger that comes to inhibit my house, nagging my kids for clearing their room and hassling my spouse while I am chasing the muse.’ When you read the poems of this anthology, they come across not just as the intellectual practice, but as the ‘spontaneous overflow’ of a creative mind. She says in the introduction of her anthology: ‘I believe there is no beginning or end of our creativity only a time when we become aware of it and want to share it. Nalini Priyadarshini’s first poetry collection, Doppelgänger in my House coils around you and takes you to a journey of love, heartbreak, sensuality and forgotten soupçons of the past, with sharp imagery and unique analogies, both mythological and mundane everyday happenings.
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