The Flute Player

In a world that too often gives us cause to despair poet Raminder Bajwa chooses to focus on reasons for optimism. His two previous collections--Of Angels and Few Lies of Everything under Blue Skies and Enlightenment--both explore humankinds search for hope love and faith. His third book The Flute Player now revisits these themes in sixty new poems that mix the personal with the universal.The poems are grouped into four sections: Of Love Observations Wishes and Attitude.By turns unabashedly romantic humorous and spiritual the poems are written in accessible language and illuminate thought-provoking truths about what it means to be alive in the twenty-first century.Bajwa explores many timely topics including terrorism war and tensions between citizens and the police. Throughout he communicates his belief in our shared humanity and our ability to find solutions to problems. The longest section of the book is devoted to poems that celebrate the United States and the freedoms we enjoy but the collection also includes poetic meditations on love creativity religion success versus failure and more.Whether you have the heart of a poet as Raminder Bajwa does or whether you simply enjoy looking at life through a poets eyes The Flute Player will entertain and touch you.