SUKESHI HAS
A DREAM
and Other Poems of Kashmir
by Lalita Pandit
© Lalita Pandit,
1998
Sukeshi
has a Dream and Other Poems of Kashmir
is part of a larger poetry collection, about to be submitted to presses.
The genesis of this volume has to do with Pandit's years of intense engagement
with teaching literature and literary aesthetics in a cross cultural context,
and her theoretical interest in the science of Aesthetics. Above all, this
collection owes its existence to Pandit's strongly felt need for creative
expression in the face of a violent erasure of the Past: Historical and
Personal.
Poetic metaphor holds contradictory states of
mind together. Poetic logic is paradoxical. Lyrical Poetry evokes the unspoken
by inventing a speech pattern, a voice, a consciousness. It transforms
the ordinary into something rare. Working on these poems has been an intensely
joyful experience for Pandit, even when the content of many of these poems
is sorrowful. Poetry converts sorrow into joy, loss into gain, past into
present and future, history into myth, the private into the public.
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