When My Heart Implodes - Poems on Love Life & Death.

Suja K Menon''s When My Heart Implodes carrying poems on love life and death is a good example of pithy poetic expression that is moderate controlled thoughtful and suggestive. There are moments of revelation ecstasy and excruciating agony in these expressive poems. I wish the poet all the best. : K.Satchidanandan ///// Words in Sujas poetry fall like dew drops: one two two one one. They fall in this order and shiver as they fall like these dew drops on a tender leaf. Minimalism of this kind is hard to come across at least in the early collection of poems . It is not so easy to hold back or let go. May be her gracious Amma (opening the door to friends at the end of the book )has taught her the craft .Women of those times were well versed in the aesthetics of silence . To my mind this art of telling the truth and telling it slant they imbibed from sookties proverbs riddles and sayings of commonsensical wisdom that the language of everyday speech is generally aglow with . Not only for the gentle wit and leelabhav but also for its keen sense of irony and angst these poemlets make a good read. : Anamika