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Sequence of Lines (A Coolection of Poems)

2016150 pages

About the book

Sequence of Lines is Manohar Bandopadhyay’s seventh collection of poems since his last volume, Helium Fence which appeared in 2001. The poems of Sequence of Lines with expansive range and complexity draw the readers to a startling world of inner depth and outer realities. Striding in tumbling imageries they explore the terrain of muse, nature, history, myth, biography and the quest for creativity. The poet’s rhetorical vigour spurs a bitter irony and controlled sarcasm anchoring an undercurrent of his ornate aesthetic. Opulently documenting the troubled panorama of the times the poems underpin realisation of human mind in its action and relationship. The poet’s journey often from wakefulness to the succour of dream resonates his lines just as his eclectic retreat from urban harshness to the placid tranquillity of the country side...

Opinions
“Manohar Bandopadhyay’s poems are marked by both verbal felicity and lyrical undertone. A strain of poignant melancholy pulsates his lines.... Bandopadhyay attempts to sing the grimy aspects of life, his word creates a greater effect in voice than picture. His images assume a rhythmic pattern, at once vivid and satisfying.”
- Indian Literature
“Also deserving of note is Bandopadhyay’s humour, dry mostly but sardonic about certain subjects.”
- Hindustan Times
“The poet is very much a part of the mechanised dreary life that goes around him, and his poems reflect that drudgery. That is why evening comes to him ‘like a workman fired from job’ and human eyes remind him of video cameras.”
- The Hindu