Out of Syllabus : Poems

Sumana Roy

ISBN 10: 9388874226 / ISBN 13: 9789388874229

Published by Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2019

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Every relationship is a long-distance relationship, we read in one of Sumana Roy s intriguing new poems. Out of Syllabus brilliantly anatomizes those relationships, viewing them from every disciplinary perspective: chemistry, physics, biology, geography, history, botany and finally art. The result is a dazzling dissection of love, longing, and loss in all their conflicting moods and moments. Roy s images and metaphors are as enigmatic as they are precise. However private and personal her subjects, Roy maintains an aesthetic distance, wit and verbal control that recalls Sylvia Plath but a Plath less angry, wiser even philosophical. This is a very special book one that deserves a wide readership. Marjorie Perloff, Emeritus Professor, Stanford University Sumana Roy s wonderful book of poems, Out of Syllabus, combines rational ordering with the unreason of striking figures of speech. The rational ordering lies in the naming of sections as items in a comprehensive syllabus: History , Chemistry , Physics and so on. The striking figures of speech are everywhere in these poems. They give out in the book s title a negative as well as a positive meaning. These metaphors are often coupled to what they figure by way of a key word in Out of Syllabus: is. But you must read these powerful and challenging poems for yourself, dear reader, to get a feeling for what they are like and for what they mean as unique poetic experiences. J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, University of California at Irvine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Out of Syllabus : Poems
• Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9388874226
• ISBN 13: 9789388874229
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Every relationship is a long-distance relationship., we read in one of the Sumana Roy's intriguing new poems. Out of Syllabus brilliantly anatomizes those relationships, viewing them from every disciplinary perspective: chemistry, physics, biology, geography, history, botany - and finally art. The result is a dazzling dissection of love, longing and loss in all their conflicting moods and moments.