Mellowed with Years by Debasis Panigrahi
Mellowed with Years
by Debasis Panigrahi
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My Ratings 4.4/5
Synopsis
The poems of this collection are musings on our life and times, musings mellowed with years. A few of them are based on ‘Corona’, the deadly pandemic that overtook the world in 2020. In a way, the collection is a part memoir of life in the time of Corona. The poems often reflect on forgetfulness, reticence, tentativeness and absence of entitlements. A recurrent theme is the deceptiveness of memory, remembrance and recollections, as the line of distinction between fact and fiction is getting blurred. There is an overwhelming preoccupation with fleetingness of time, fears, premonitions, forebodings, ageing, insanity, infirmity, death and morbidity. The poems portray relationships, emotions, places and peoples with an unusual intensity and are deeply perceptive, contemplative and poignant.
My Thoughts
There’s something to be said about a poem that deeply moves you. With that in mind, we couldn’t think of anything better than putting together this poetry collection you should read. If you enjoy the lyrical genius of brilliant poets, this book will be the perfect book for you.
Mellowed with Years by Debasis Panigrahi
This poetry collection hits all the right notes when it comes to discussing the current human condition and the way we ultimately wish society worked. Debasis Panigrahi gives readers something important to think about. Later diving into fleetingness of time, fears, premonitions, forebodings, ageing, insanity, infirmity, death and morbidity , mortality and human desire, this book will stick with you long after the final page.
These poems can’t make the current reality of Corona vanish, but they can contend against it with the force of a restorative imagination. Debasis’s work is about that imagination―its role in repairing and sustaining human emotions and relationships, and in making the world more bearable. . . . Their poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy. . . . But they also know the magic trick of making writing on the page operate like the most ecstatic speech. Exceptional. . . . There is pain here but there is so much joy, so much fierce resistance to anything that dares to temper the stories being told here.
I must say the result of reading this poetry collection is bittersweet, but the sweetness is real, even when it’s grounded in imagination―partly because that imagination is so grounded in the reality it wants to refuse, but just as much because Debasis, in fantasy and in grief, poems often reflect on forgetfulness, reticence, tentativeness and absence of entitlements to giving pleasure. Debasis's Mellowed with Years is all the things poetry ought to be but rarely grasps―heartbreaking, funny, sorrowful, surprising.
Debasis Panigrahi is an original. . . . If you have ever lost faith, if you want to believe in life, then you must read this book―it will humble and uplift you, leave you understanding that in the face of it all, there is only awe.
Highly Recommended!
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