SUNG SELDOMS SO LONG (B&W)

The title of this book needs a word of linguistic justification. Grammatically the term seldom is an adverb of time. But it has been freed from the shackles of grammar and used as a pluralized noun to underscore the significance of the untrodden poetic nuances and style adopted and stitched like a running thread into the poems assorted here. The range of the poems roams ramblingly through sundry contemplations of the poet. The object-referents to the poets thought process are variegated gently swaying from contemporary issues to classical archetypes of self-quest love and its primal manifestations and god-contemplation. Tonally there are wide variations from genial humour and satire to deep involvement in an observed phenomenon to the point of empathy. The poems will hopefully stir the soul of a reader and make him rethink over accepted myths and motifs.