{"product_id":"expiations-9781911229001","title":"Expiations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is but a sampler, and a rich smattering of verse - of all cadences and genres, penned over a long period of time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e These poems could, at best, howsoever fleetingly, warm the heart, soothe the disgruntled sensibility, or allay the anxieties of the disturbed mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The only interlarding thread, in all of them, is that rarefied sense of beauty that informs all poetic imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The reader could pause on the sounds, the moods, or the meanings of the Lyrics: it doesn't matter - each is part of the mythopoetic resonance of the stanzas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Occasionally, the Verses, old and new, are endorsed to near and dear ones, past and present: for such is the ever ongoing romance of life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e I will hope they stir the waking spirit in the reader: and compel him or her to Look around, yet again, at the mystery and splendour of our existence in this grandiloquent Planetary Endowment within which we occupy a tiny space as restless, reverberating nuclei of Pain and Desire that are our inexorable, conjoint Destiny as humans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The selection is made across a very long canvas, dating back to 1968. Each is representative, as a loyal echo, of the period, the mood, and the context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The verse is mere spoken music, as I think but in measures of metre and rhyme.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e And words are deployed only as tonal instruments rather than items of syntax loaded with semantics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e So the reader may read, and \u003cem\u003eread in to, \u003c\/em\u003e as S\/he pleases.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e If these verses live on, it is my hope that the individuals they are dedicated to, shall also abide - forever.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Finally, the poetry of the universe is flung all around us: as Wordsworth had it: \u003cem\u003e'O Listen, for the vale profound is overflowing with the sound.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rajani Kanth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Augur Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911229001","brand":"Augur Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45486872723593,"sku":"9781911229001","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5d3528e5-a5d7-4f01-8327-a77549af4ab0.jpg?v=1775544095","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/expiations-9781911229001","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}