ISBN – 978-81-966577-2-7
\nINR 250
\nPaperback | 111 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ajanta Paul\u2019s Earth Elegies<\/em> celebrates the mystery and beauty of nature while decrying its despoliation. In their focus on environmental concerns, many poems are ecopoetic through and through. The collection also draws attention to subtle moments of appreciating nature as well as to our emotional responses to places. At the same time, ecological awareness threads through the collection. Such interconnections surface in the redolent line \u201cof sap and sapience\u201d from the poem \u201cA Late Flowering.\u201d Here the poet implies that sap is sapience. Some poems in Earth Elegies<\/em> address non-human beings as communicative subjects. \u201cTalismanic Tree,\u201d for instance, foregrounds the felt encounters between people and plants. The speaker retreats into the \u201cnatural, capacious arms. \/ Our safe and loving anchorage!\u201d To be certain, there is a lexicon for touch\u2014hard, soft, rough, smooth, slick, tickling\u2014but also the idea of being moved, affected, or impacted positively. As Margaret Atwood writes in no uncertain terms, \u2018Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.\u201d Ajanta Paul\u2019s poetry engages touch in both senses: of skin-to-skin contact with trees but also of the encounters with the arboreal world that transform us profoundly…John Charles Ryan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":333,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[19],"product_tag":[135,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-332","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","7":"product_tag-ajanta-paul","8":"product_tag-earth-elegies","9":"thunk-woo-product-list","10":"opn-qv-enable","11":"big-store-woo-hover-zoom","12":"open-single-product-tab-horizontal","13":"open-shadow-","14":"open-shadow-hover-","16":"first","17":"instock","18":"shipping-taxable","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penprints.in\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}