Available Light: New and Collected Poems Available Light: New and Collected PoemsBY SMITA AGARWALAvailable Light: New and Collected PoemsC.P. By and large, conflicted memories related to childhood, especially the father, and failed love, form the sediment upon which the edifice of the collected poems is erected. Cupping his hands to contain this Available Light, the poet struggles to put before us this shadowy world peopled by the ghostly revenants of memory. The sands rise from your pores,There the shadows start. So, in a span of many years, not a single positive point of contact with the female of the species!

Source: Indian Express November 24, 2017 20:06 UTC