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Coins in Rivers: Poems
by Rochelle Potkar, Rochelle Potkar
"There are a thousand ways of lovemaking, that's why the world sustains, bomb after genocide after tsunami after meteorite, because people smile diffusing nuclear energy. Fissions of the heart. Fusions of desire."
Coins In River by Rochelle Potkar is a collection of 78 poems, divided into 9 parts. With themes as diverse as politics, love, relationships, womanhood and much more, giving voice to the unheard, unrecognized, untendered, under-appreciated words, feelings, emotions and people.
In the Preface of the book, the author said — "I often think of poetry as light and sound. We can’t perceive all the light on the spectrum, nor hear all the sounds: infrasonic, ultrasonic. So too, not all art is within grasp, but over time it just might be within understanding – a sign of our evolution and tastes." — And it aligns perfectly with what I thought about this collection. A collection having poems about topics as diverse as one can think of with metaphors and regional words, that can make one smile, reflect, frustrate, anger and work upon. But at the same time, just like with sound and light, there were so many poems in this collection that I was not able to perceive, decipher and understand and I wish that over time, I would be able to do that. The writing is complex and it needs time to understand, a time that I want to give it in the future as well.
Though the one I understood, I fell in love with them. There is a unique voice and perspective in the poet's narration, and it connects deeply. The illustrated poems that come once in a while in between were my favourite and they said a lot without saying much.
There are many poems in the collection that have arisen because of some real-life incidents, and one needs to know that to be able to appreciate it, and once it's done, the words create magic, or I should say mortification, as that's the case in so many poems, my favourite being "Sew" that talks the incident that took place in Khairlanji and thereafter.
Overall, this is a collection that demands time, a time that depends on a person-to-person basis - while some would be able to understand them completely, some will require more time, and I find myself with the latter ones.
"Should I send you a dream because
all words
have offloaded from the last freight truck...?"
Coins In River by Rochelle Potkar is a collection of 78 poems, divided into 9 parts. With themes as diverse as politics, love, relationships, womanhood and much more, giving voice to the unheard, unrecognized, untendered, under-appreciated words, feelings, emotions and people.
In the Preface of the book, the author said — "I often think of poetry as light and sound. We can’t perceive all the light on the spectrum, nor hear all the sounds: infrasonic, ultrasonic. So too, not all art is within grasp, but over time it just might be within understanding – a sign of our evolution and tastes." — And it aligns perfectly with what I thought about this collection. A collection having poems about topics as diverse as one can think of with metaphors and regional words, that can make one smile, reflect, frustrate, anger and work upon. But at the same time, just like with sound and light, there were so many poems in this collection that I was not able to perceive, decipher and understand and I wish that over time, I would be able to do that. The writing is complex and it needs time to understand, a time that I want to give it in the future as well.
Though the one I understood, I fell in love with them. There is a unique voice and perspective in the poet's narration, and it connects deeply. The illustrated poems that come once in a while in between were my favourite and they said a lot without saying much.
There are many poems in the collection that have arisen because of some real-life incidents, and one needs to know that to be able to appreciate it, and once it's done, the words create magic, or I should say mortification, as that's the case in so many poems, my favourite being "Sew" that talks the incident that took place in Khairlanji and thereafter.
Overall, this is a collection that demands time, a time that depends on a person-to-person basis - while some would be able to understand them completely, some will require more time, and I find myself with the latter ones.
"Should I send you a dream because
all words
have offloaded from the last freight truck...?"