Looking

299.00

Author: Nishi Pulugurtha
ISBN: 978-93-92494-46-8
Pages: 96
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Written largely during the pandemic days, Nishi Pulugurtha’s third collection is one of longing, and of acute observations, of being at home alone and being in the world with its people and places, of journeys and stillness, of dreams and visions, of nostalgia and wish-fulfilment, of hope and hopelessness, of public concerns and private doubts. In all this, one thing remains constant — the poet’s piecing gaze at her subjects. She observes and she reports. And most importantly, she looks… and she sees.

From observation to meditation: that is often the way Nishi Pulugurtha’s poems travel. Her constant attempt is to capture the nuanced experiences of our derelict times… — K Satchidanandan

These simple, single image poems in a narrative style can help redirect readers’ attention to the individual life of things. — Mani Rao

Nishi Pulugurtha’s poems hold more meaning than what the words apparently convey. …Her poetry holds in its ambit tactile nostalgia for childhood and things that have gone missing in life. …A collection penned from the heart, unafraid to embrace the tender vulnerabilities of human nature. — Vinita Agrawal

Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic, author and poet. Her publications include a collection of essays on travel, Out in the Open; an edited volume of essays on travel, Across and Beyond; two volume of poems, The Real and the Unreal and Other Poems and Raindrops on the Periwinkle; a co-edited volume of poems Voices and Vision: The First IPPL Anthology and a collection of short stories The Window Sill. Her recent book is an edited volume of critical essays, Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence (Routledge, 2023). A volume of essays written during the pandemic, Lockdown Times, is forthcoming. She is the Secretary of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata and is member, Advisory Board, Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India, Calcutta Chapter.