Penumbra_Mr Vinod Asudani

This book contains 57 English poems from the pen of multilingual poet who has already established himself as one of the significant contemporary literary voices in Sindhi and Hindi languages in Indian sub-continent. The poems included in this book deal with a wide range of topics. Some of the poems like biodiversity in search of Bahuguna and broken toys portray sensibility of the disabled. They authentically depict anguish agony and perspective of a disable person. Many other things such as disillusionment fragmentary existence self-alienation love romance social criticism to appear and reappear in different poems. All these things have been approached from different angle and they unfold in the poems in an unusual manner triggering emotional and intellectual response from the readers. poems included in this volume make readers to reconsider and redefine many of their notions about affection relationship myths social reality violence governance and so on. Poetry is characterised by psychological realism. many of the poems operate at different levels and each level is made up of many layers. hence sometimes they make heavy demand on intellect and sensibility of readers to fully decipher their connotation.