A Vagrant Mirror

Satyapal AnandS Poetry Is Cerebral Rather Than Emotional. It Reveals A Many Splendored Splash Of Color And Sound. His Poems Reveal The Essential Mythopoeic Self Present In The Poet Himself As In All Humanity. Again His Personae Are All Inside His Poems. \Here\ And \Now\ Or \There\ And \Beyond\ Combine And Create Word Collages. By Authenticating The Effects Of The Vision And Perceptions Underlying Them His Images Give Us New Ways Of Seeing The World. There Is A Kind Of Double Vision Involved In It. His Is The ImagistS Faculty For Seeing A Thing At Once Precisely For Itself And At The Same Time As Part Of A Larger Phenomenon. Many Of His Poems Are Dramatic Monologues. In These The Speaker Does Not Speak In A Vacuum. When He Speaks Or Acts It Reflects The Time Place Thought Social Conventions And General Circumstances; But It Also Impinges Upon Political Philosophical And Religious Shades Of Meaning That Transgress The Immediacy Of The Situation. Caroline Greene Says That Nothing Extraordinary Has Happened In American Poetry In The Past Half A Century And If An Urdu Poet Of Satyapal AnandS Stature Chooses To Bring His Treasure House To The English-Speaking Word It Is Likely To Change The Entire Scenario Here. It Is Precisely Because The Poet Recovers The Extracultural Historic-Mythological Ground Of Humanity As A Whole That American Poets Have Lost In \Localizing\ Their Poetry.