Undecember

<h1>About the Book</h1><p>A solar year consists of twelve months. But if a lunar year has to correspond to a solar year then an extra month is required. This leap month is 'Undecember'.</p><p>[...] This book represents a month of thirty days divided into two sections: <em>Sukla Paksha</em> and <em>Krishna Paksha</em> - the Hindu demarcations for the waxing and waning phases of the moon - each comprising fifteen poems for the fifteen days of each phase. </p><p>These thirty poems convey the same ethos and sensibility of the previous book - being intensely personal and yet aesthetically accessible. The poems continue their play on <em>Sringara Rasa</em> of love and beauty mediated by the sense of <em>viraha</em>.</p><p></p><h1>A Review</h1><p><em>Amit Shankar Saha is the Koh-i-Noor of poets a priceless Indian diamond that shines most brilliantly among English [writers]. Who else could transform a missing tooth into a multifaceted meditation on mortality and identity? Or invoke the many-named splendors of his native land and also invoke a cherished love life via an imaginary tour through his own country of rhododendrons all in less than twenty short lines? Nearly every poem in this book is a treasure! I highly recommend it.</em></p><p class=ql-align-right>- Duane Vorhees author of Heaven and Between Holocausts</p>