Larkspur Lane : Branched Labyrinths of the Mind

Prufrock in his love song sees the mermaids ride seaward. What he does not see is the left behind broken seashore. Nivedita Dey in her poems tries to fix with cello tape this vast broken seashore. There are wordplays puns enjambments and literary allusions in her poems but what is paramount is the searing honest expression of poetry. Here she presents human maps in her “glass jarhead” before the “hourglass inverts to an all-encompassing end”. Read her before it is late. – Amit Shankar Saha Poet Assistant Professor at Seacom Skills University Author of Balconies of Time Fugitive Words Illicit Poems. The mind’s a maze where our deepest thoughts often crouch; thoughts we hide even from ourselves. Nivedita’s poetry brings them out; rawest wounds are bared; the reader’s left out of breath. Then her poems gently raise us from our hurting selves and show us the doorway to the universe of light and hope. Larkspur Lane is a collection that speaks in a voice that’s neither sympathizing nor judgmental. It doesn’t speak from a high pedestal. It’s a voice that we hear every day but don’t listen to really. It’s our very own inner voice and it tells us we’re never alone. – Ananya Chatterjee Poet Translator Software Professional at Oracle Author of The Poet & His Valentine a collection of verses Another Soliloquy The Blind Man’s Rainbow Un-building Walls and other books.