A Map of Ruins- Navodaya Series (A Collection of Poems)

A distinct universe is the setting for Nabanita Kanungo's poetry, a universe of haunting melody that makes me return to it over and over again. A Map of Ruins is powered by a deep bitter-sweet nostalgia and quiet intelligence, which the poet uses dramatically to focus on what is lost and passing away. Time, love and farewell are those ruins which map the world in which Nabanita Kanungo moves with consummate ease. These "ruins" unsettle me; they are more than I can handle.

A memorable and eloquent debut. I love these poems.

It is a highly subjective world, intensely focused, where scarcely anything escapes her gaze, but burgeons into poetry when it comes into collision with the world of phenomenon. Written in striking lyric form, with an innate ear for music and the instinctual, with minimal narrative, with the capacity to surprise and remind us of things one has overlooked or forgotten in the daily business of living, this is compelling poetry.

Nabanita Kanungo is 33 and this is her first book of poems. Her poems have appeared in an anthology, Ten: The New Indian Poets, and journals like the Prairie Schooner, Caravan, Kindle, Four Quarter's, Indian Literature, Journal of the Poetry Society of India and Muse India. Nabanita was born in Shillong, where she lives and is currently pursuing her PhD in Geography from the North-Eastern Hill University.

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