Tag: Kiriti Sengupta
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The author as spirit
In three major works The Earthen Flute, Reflections on Salvation and Rituals poet Kiriti Sengupta parallels Cubist and postmodernist ideas of truth
July 17, 2019 -
Poetry as beads of pearls
When I write about Kiriti Sengupta’s poems, I don’t write about Kiriti Sengupta’s poems. I mean I do write about his poems but in a very different way. His poems are like beads of pearls which have spilled and fallen on the floor and hurriedly rolled into dark, hidden spots of the room. So, I …
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October 8, 2017 -
‘Poets are self-motivated souls, poetry is compulsion’
Of all romanticism associated with poetry, the ethereal and carefree life of a poet is perhaps the most adored. But is this — the state of a poet's being — the reason for the existence of poetry, and, more so, what is a poem's purpose? There are no wars to be won through poetry, no …
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July 24, 2017