KNOTTED GRIEF

DescriptionIn his first book of poems, renowned publisher Naveen Kishore shows us—without holding back, and yet with compassion—grief, deep and bewildering;cruelties, public and private. He lays bare the nature of our outer and innerrealities, using striking symbolism to reveal what humans are capable of doingto each other. The early part of the collection, ‘Kashmiriyat’, is a visceralmonument to shadows, widows and unlived lives, constructed with onehundred and five stanzas. In the ‘selected griefs’ that follow, the wounds areintimate, everyday, but the images remind us of the world’s brutalities—andwhat, then, is innocent? By depicting large-scale human tragedies and familiarhabits and hurts within the same covers, the poet tests himself, and us.