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He drags your pain out of your heart
And then draws an anatomical chart
Dissects you for fun
And some lazy pun.

We see things growing, evolving, agitating, all signs of life. To read these poems is to experience the humour, and sometimes the tragicomedy, of being in process. The poet’s desire is explicit: ‘A xself longs to find itself/ On this shelf’. These are poems about the ‘xself’, and x+n selves. — Sumana Roy 

Amit Ranjan is not averse to word-play or deconstructing syntax. To his credit, he does it without disturbing any constituent of the intrinsic lyricism of the poem. The result is both pleasing and provocative for the reader, spurring her to read on. What more could one want from a collection of poems? — Mridula Garg 

This is a breathtaking, stunning, almost Cohenesque debut collection of poetry. This is a collection that does Leonard Cohen, the poet’s muse, proud as it does all Cohen fans. Read him, for he gives you your man, Amit Ranjan. — GJV Prasad