Someday Dream

About the Book Someday Dream: "Vitasta succeeds in holding on to the thread of her great concerns running through individual poems, and as motifs in many of the other poems-her quarrel with the established and clichéd forms and structures, diction and phrasing, the ordinariness of everything that is accomplished around us and many more. Her sights are set beyond the stars... she is the inveterate Sagittarian 'stargazer,' a fusion-word she uses in many of her poems.

Alliteration, assonance, end-rhymes-the external music of words, the impatient rush of verse along with the chariot race of words... A wordy rain in which flashes of lightning and thunder of poetic profusion abound. Fantastic figures and characters inhabit these poems. Are they born of dreams, nightmares, visions, hallucinations? But they do make fascinating read. Sometimes, Coleridgean, sometimes Blakean, sometimes Whitmanish... (it is not an attempt at comparison, just description...), Vitasta's poetry flows tumultuosly like the waters of the other Vistasta."

About the Author Vitasta Raina is an architect, urban planner, artist and writer based in New Delhi. Her poetry has been featured in Indian Literature and Emanations. Someday Dream is her first collection of poems.

Introduction The truth is but a broken mirror, it shows you many sides of your being, only shattered and in disarray-Vitasta Raina.

Thomas Hardy, Orhan Pamuk, Arundhati Roy, Hisham Matar and Vitasta Raina-what is common to them? Hardy is a novelist and poct, whom Evelyn Waugh lampooned: "If longevity is genius, then he is one...." Pamuk is a rage among lovers of fiction for his impassioned narratives which leave no corners of human existence unexplored, through the breathless finesse with which he adds details and trivia in page after page of his direct story-telling which leaves the reader aching for more, and still more when the book suddenly comes to the last page. Arundhati is best known now for her impassioned prose in which she takes an unambiguous anti-imperialist stand and offers tout opposition to anti-human forces; in fact she is much better known this way than for her solitary novel. Hisham is a novelist and poet who creates rare moods with the subtle nuances of his subdued tone. Vitasta is a poet of Whitmanish exuberance, a surveyor of the rarest realms of human emotions. It maybe a coincidence that all these writers had been involved with architecture-if Hardy, "the brick layer" can be called an architect, that is.

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