Woes of the Womb Begotten

Universality of human suffering in its inevitable and perpetual relationship with human existence overtakes the womb-begotten at the earliest stage of birth. This poetic perception is the thematic base of each of the twenty eight poems of this collection. Perpetual pain is thus the truth of creation for the poet and its numerous manifestations overwhelm him. Suffering is omnipresent and yet formless.

Written under varying odds and in different moods over a span of fifty years, these poems animate the undercurrent of human plight circumscribed by various forces exerting influence over human experience and existence.

Kishore Kalpanakant (1930-2002) was a well-known Rajasthani poet who assimilated the great poetic tradition, synthesized it to suit the concerns age and left it as a of his stimulus for the later poets

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