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- W776524407 abstract "A.N. Dwivedi, Wayward Wanderings: A Collection of 40 Poems (Authors Press, 2012)A.N. Dwivedi's collection is a dialogue of ideas and the exploration of modern condition of man. It is about some of the most prominent themes that preoccupy us on any side of the great divides. He shows us that divides make no sense, as for instance when the persona of the opening poem 'a Journey to Yemen' meets a man who flaunts Allah as some form of exclusive deity and pits him against the persona's Ishwar. The persona answers: 'Ishwar, Allah 'n' God are one / 'n' the same' (26).Each of the forty poems occupies a place on a spectrum ranging from concrete to contemplative lyricism. A poem such as 'Nuclear Holocaust' truly packs a punch:Today's war will be the war of nerves,of deadly gases 'n' infections bacteria,of stealthily spreading flus 'n' fevers,sending chill down the spines.No protective umbrella can safeguarda nation from the nuclear holocaust. (33)The concrete poems are often prosaic narratives of autobiographical-sounding journeys, often linear but fragmentary. They stand in contrast to more cerebral and philosophical verses which attempt to quickly prod the issues such as freedom and tradition, intellect and one's place in the world. The poem 'My Religion is Humanity' reads in part:I'm a born Hindu,a brahmin by ritualsa universalist in view.Narrow-minded considerationsof caste, creed 'n' communityare aery nothing to me. (34)The contemplative poems often use the first person 'I' and the possessive 'my' while theconcrete poems often turn to the second person 'you', the author's play with distances andcloseness, with separations and intimacies. I do not mean that the 'I' necessarily evokescloseness while the 'you' creates a distance. The dialectic of close/far, just as that ofSelf/Other, shifts within one and the same verse. There is a sense of Otherness in the Self asit finds itself in exile, in a foreign place such as Yemen in the poem 'Going Abroad':Living in exileis like putting a birdin an iron cage.The bird wants to flybut its wings are clipped.A foreign government imposesits own rigid rules -You can't move even an inchwithout'Exit & Re-entry Visa''n'unsavoury security checks. (51)Although this poem contains some typical metaphors, it still moves at the level of mundane details of bureaucratic worlds that the exile has to manoeuvre. …" @default.
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