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Short Verse Delight. Aju Mukhopadhyay. Prasoon Publication 168,
Swapnil Housing Board Colony, Sec-7 Extn, Gurgaon-122001. Rs. 95
each.
About
Aju Mukhopadhyay, a bilingual poet and writer, a member of the
Coordination Committee of The Haiku Society of India, member of
the World Haiku Club and other bodies, has been contributing
poems of Japanese genre to various magazines and ezines,
national and
international, for many years. Some of his poems are categorized
as 'Editor's Choice', some are arranged as 'Honourble Mention'
some are shown as 'Haiku of Merit', etc. One of his poems with
translations in Bangla and Romanian has been published in the
anthology of haiku poems, 'One Thousand Cranes', published from
Romania, as the only contribution from India. His poems have
been translated and included in some anthologies. This is his
seventh book of poems in English and second of this variety with
100 selected haiku and 30 tanka poems besides four relevant
essays published in different Indian magazines. They speak of
the poet's creations and creative ideas; the position of short
verse in the world of poetry, the introduction of haiku in India
by Tagore who himself created no haiku, Tagore's short verse and
its comparative position and lastly, what is haiku and the
recent trend in haiku movement.
Commentary
Some excerpts from the critiques of his first book of such
poems, Short Verse Vast Universe, may give some idea
about the quality of his verses. Every word has a special
effect; every stanza reveals a lot and every poem goes deep into
the essence of the mind. Expressing Haiku is a talent that not
many can possess and Mr. Aju Mukhopadhyay is so well-versed in
the art that every line of the poem infuses meditation and
devotion.
~Dr. Shubha Mukherjee in Poetcrit and Contemporary Vibes
Short Verse Delight
“Concise expression, clarity, sensory immediacy, and an allusive
quality of hinting at rather than stating explicitly are the
hall marks of good short poems of Japanese origin, and these
attributes are central to Mukhopadhyay's poems.
~Patricia Prime in Poets International
A Chapbook of thirty pages reveals
the enlightened genius of Aju Mukhopadhyay who has amazingly
mastered the art of writing haiku, tanka and short verse. His
latest book under review is a flowing cascade but zigzagging its
way, not flowing within the confines of concretized elbowing
pavements.
~Contemporary Vibes
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