A Comment on KNOCKING VISTAS AND OTHER POEMS

 

In Knocking Vistas and Other Poems, Ram Krishna Singh’s late style, “wintered sadness” poetry provides intimate current day meditations and reflections that bump metaphors and images against soulful ironic reportage where loneliness ranks higher than a haiku. Aware of his daily spiritual poetics, Singh, in shorter poems provides comfort to readers who aren’t ailing from age-related illnesses. Using the youthful mindset, he brings the reality of shadow-chasing during the night: Alone on a “bed he contorts his body to manouvre restlessness in the legs.” In a longer poem, fantasy brings peace when the prayer to the “divine on a wall” where then the readers learn “she leans on him to kiss.” One of the two title poems (Three-Liners) that I find interesting still, reflects on the trivia in life and rejects the “illusion of self” . . . “yet the guest doesn’t show up.” The poem is philosophical while marking an intimate experience. The energy in this collection of confessional poems later in life promises the experienced readers that the “end of the season” is a metaphor after all. This reader clicks his “heels together: secret code” that requests another collection soon. Knocking Vistas and Other Poems by Ram Krishna Singh is available at the publishers platform and other sites including Amazon.

--Rich Murphy

Guest Lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States 

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