The photo on the book's cover is provided by Ms
Winny Singh.
Contents :
Preface V
List of Contributors VII
Introduction 1
1. Journey of Beauty: Nature and Woman in
the Poetry of R.K. Singh
— P. C. K. Prem 9
2. The Poetics of R. K. Singh
— Jindagi Kumari & Rajni Singh 34
3. “I seek freedom from myself”: Existential
Restlessness in R.K. Singh’s Sexless Solitude
and Other Poems
— Yana Atanasova Rowland 46
4. A Stylistic Interpretation of R. K. Singh’s
Poem ‘Sexless Solitude’
— G.D. Barche 64
5. R. K. Singh’s ‘Karmic Credit’: A Study in Text
— D. C. Chambial 73
6. Philosophy as Figure?: A Study of the Poetry
of R. K. Singh
— Mahendra Singh 79
7. “Sanjaya” and “Dhrutrashtra”
Reconstructed in
the Capsule Poems of R. K. Singh
— G.D. Barche 101
8. “Living in uncertainties /it’s life in death”:
Death Motif in R.K. Singh’s Poetry
— Rajni Singh 109
9. Contemporary Social Issues/Anxieties in the
Poetry of R. K. Singh
— P. C .K. Prem 117
10. Profession and Performance: R. K. Singh’s
Sexless Solitude and Other Poems - A Study
— V. V. B. Rama Rao 128
11. Erotic Consciousness in R.K. Singh’s Poetry:
Depiction of Feminine Enamouredness
— Jindagi Kumari 137
12. Mirroring the Contemporary Society and Culture:
The Poetry of R.K. Singh and P. Raja
— Jayshree Goswami & Md. Mojibur Rahman 143
13. The Asexuality of Sex: A Study of Sex Expressions
in R.K. Singh’s Poetry
— Raghuvanshmani Tripathi 156
14. Treatment of Myths in the Poetry of Shiv K. Kumar
and R. K. Singh: A Comparative Study
— Jindagi Kumari & Rajni Singh 165
15. Major Themes in R. K. Singh’s Sexless Solitude
and Other Poems
— Ram Sharma 176
16. Haiku in English, Indian English Haiku and
R. K. Singh
— Rajni Singh 180
17. Form and Flow of R. K. Singh’s Tanka and
Haiku in The River Returns
— Asha Viswas 188
18. Snapshots of Life in The River Returns
— Patricia Prime 197
19. Haiku and R. K. Singh: A Critical Analysis of
Peddling Dream
— K. V. Dominic 202
20. Flashes from Flesh in R. K. Singh’s The River
Returns
— Sudhir K. Arora 214
21. The Magnetism of the Measured Syllables:
R.K. Singh’s Haiku and Tanka Sequences
— Rajni Singh 227
Publications of R.K.Singh 234
The book should help interested scholars and researchers to explore R.K.Singh's poetry, including haiku and tanka, more seriously and deeply.
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