Old Songs

Small Press Bookwatch, Nov, 2004

Old Songs

Sharanya Naik

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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...