A Week with
Enya by Amar B. Singh is a delicate collection of poems concerning the voice of
a father and a life explorer. The collection offers over 20 poems, mostly
written in simple, lucid, and prosaic form. Each poem is a gem in the
collection and makes us cogitate about us being human and our existence.
Through
contemporary poems, it has become a saga profound to challenge the perceptions
that gripped our beliefs and allied existence. This collection is quite modern
in its semblance, as we run through the poems and prose, we find the voice of
the poet shuttling between his desires and his life at working ambiences. There
is everything that it’s being a modern poetry collection, for instance, in the
poem ‘The Pursuit of Intelligence’
the poet mocks the smart people for lusting after smart technologies like AI,
ML, etc., but the same smart people are unable to communicate with an innocent,
subtly autistic, child. Isn’t ironical?
The way Amar
Singh weaves the voice and overall backdrop for each poem, a sense of constant
awareness of an inner life emerges that looks like stronger and more tangible
than the unplumbed hedonistic external world. A reader at leisure is likely to
experience a gamut of experiences in the collection such as love, compassion, passion,
greed, betrayal, fear, and so on. Poems are written in rhythmic expression but
warmth of realism and pragmatism is always around the horizon.
As the title
suggests, A Week with Enya, the poet has drawn inspiration for all the poems
from his autistic daughter with whom he spent one week. It is to be noted that
how much children have the profundity to change our perceptions when we are
snow blind in some sort of rat race. Nearly all poems take us close to the
societal patterns which subsequently change and affect our lives. Are the
societal values correctly etched in our dogmatism and mind and grooming? The
collection asks vociferously and most of the poems like Identity, The Lion in
the Cage, Fasting, The Deep Lake are based on similar proposition.
It’s a good
collection which can be read over and again to seek an asylum from the
scorching reality of the world and it will, for sure, sooth the mind for some
good extent. A bit dark, largely moving, and cogitating – this book needs to be
savoured by people in seek of good contemporary poetry collection.
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