Bewailing Muse - Vicious is the Cycle of Life!

About the Book: Bewailing Muse: Be it the sage Valmeeki or be it the modern poet Sumitra Nandan Pant both have held that poetry has its founts in heart and is the outcome of extreme sorrow misery or pangs of separation. Poetry cannot be created; it gets engendered out of compulsion. From the heart! Heart’s language is poetry or musing! I have offered to christen them as Muse: ‘Bewailing Muse’; the first musings out of wailings! Nevertheless I am tempted not to treat them as children’s literature for I sense some substantial element too in them. The period of the composition of these poems is from 1972 to 1976; and I feel that my wailings have not fallen on deaf ears so to say given my present circumstances of life which are totally opposite to the then prevailing ones! About the Author: ‘Videh’ Arvind Kumar: Born at a non-descript hamlet to a couple of modicum means yet endowed with higher ideals and noble intentions and having teaching as their profession ‘Videh’ Arvind Kumar is a post-graduate in Physics and a senior banker - a retired one that is. He has as his hobby the reading of literary books of both English and Hindi particularly those of Nobel laureates. He has been published in magazines like Kadambini long back and other stray magazines and English papers. He has published books in both English and Hindi spanning multiple genre that include two English translations: ‘Search For Life’ the English version of Hindi book ‘Hatyari Sadee Main Jeevan Kee Khoj’ by ‘Nirvikar’ Mukesh Kumar; and ‘Reality of Invisible’ that of Hindi poetry book ‘Adrishya Ka Yatharth’ by renowned poet ‘Ashwaghosh’ Om Prakash. Aside from these translations he has published two English books based on critical appreciation and study: ‘Nagasaki: Bomb & Aftermath’ based on the first novel ‘A Pale View of Hills’ by 2017 Nobel Literature laureate Kazuo Ishiguro; and ‘Procreation the Adorable’ based on the study and appreciation of mythological volume