Synopsis
Language: English
Pages: 147
About the Book
A Woven Rope is a translation of Bhawani Prasad Mishra's Sahitya Akademi award-winning collection of Hindi poems Buni Huyi Rassi. The poem in this collection are clearly a movement from outer to the inner world. The poet is sharply aware of the ephemeral nature of each passing moment This awareness imparts an intensity even to the most mundane episodes in the poet's life. In contrast to the poems in his previous collections, Buni Huyi Rassi mostly contains Bhawani Prasad's shorter poems. Passing time, sense of loneliness in old age, conflict due to differences in perception, description of varied natural phenomena, close scrutiny of everyday life- are some of the subjects that these poems explore. In his unique style, Bhawani Prasad creates a diction that effects new meaning sometimes due to musicality of similar sounding words, sometimes due to pun and sometimes due to sheer vividness of imagery.
About the Author
Bhawani Prasad Misha is often referred to as a people's poet. He wrote in colloquial Hindi and touched different aspects of human emotions with a rare sensitivity in his poetry. Bhawani Prasad experimented with many poetic forms like ghazal, song, folk, narrative and motivational poems yet he crafted a unique style of his own. He is the author of 2 poetry collections which include Gandhi Panchshati, Geet Farosh, Chakit hai Dukh, Andheri Kavitaen, Khushbu Ke Shilalekh, Trikal Sandhya, and Neeli Rekha Tak, etc. He received the Sahitya Akademi award in 1972.
About the Translator
Alka Tyagi is a poet, writer and a translator. She has a doctoral degree from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She currently teaches in Dyal Singh Evening
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