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Old Songs
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Sharanya Naik
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MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: Old Songs is a brief collection of twenty-seven free-verse poems plus one prose story that retells an ancient East Indian epic, The Ramayana, through the voice of its heroine. Steeped in East Indian culture and experience, as well as the universal themes of love, the eternal quest to find a person who understands one's soul, and individual wanderings in the physical and spiritual realms. A moving fusion of storytelling, mythos and rhythm. "Lament": So many lost / not to death / to anger, fear / so weak the ground / beneath relationship / so easily swallowed... Twenty seven poems tell stories of love, loss, seeking and finding. One story, Sita, is a retelling of the Indian epic The Ramayana, in the voice of its heroine.
Beautiful, beautiful poetry…a theme through all of this collection is the lovemaking between the Larger Story of the myth and archetype and the Smaller Story of the personal life and its human experience. …there is a lightness that comes through blunt truth, not before expressed in such a way, which relieves the pathos of some of our tragic mythic characters.
Naik writes of both male and female heroes in her poetry, but with the females, she seems to use a necessary extra force, taking up the poet’s lever to pry open mythic truth, to reinsert the lost dimension of woman, partner, mother, daughter, old woman.
The second half of this book is a novella, a retelling of the Indian epic, The Ramayana, in the voice of its heroine, Sita. Sita’s voice has never been heard. It is Naik’s leap of imagination which captures the voice of this ancient queen. Her time and place is foreign to the reader, and yet her story is familiar and important.
This is a wonderful first book from a gifted writer.
Kylea Taylor, editor of The Inner Door, the author of The Breathwork Experience, The Ethics of Caring, The Holotropic Breathwork Workshop Manual and editor of Exploring Holotropic Breathwork. |
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Sharanya is a teacher, dancer, mother. She is a certified practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork™ and a seeker in the transpersonal realms.
Email: sharanya@earthlink.net
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