UNRAVELING (Poems)

Rachna Joshi, one of the finest contemporary Indian poets, transfers and translates her grief into verses. Deaths in her family, primarily the recent death of her father haunts her and thus her cathartic outpourings, her troubled heart creates moving and touching poems. Some of her poems are political and her memories of Syracuse, Calgary and exotic journeys to Nagaland or Ladakh make wonderful landscapes. Images that trouble and haunt all the readers. As with each one of us, the pandemic troubled her and she came with silence in her verse. War disturbs her and her sensitivity and compassionate heart again create poignant verses. This volume of verses Unraveling unfastens the knots of life-misery, pleasure, happiness and ecstasy… ----MANDIRA GHOSH Travelling down under life's memory lanes, Rachna's poetry, in their minimalist splendour, captivates the reader with beautiful picturisation of love and loss, dreams and melancholia, being and nothingness and touching images. Her lines flower with defining the distances a poet can carry with well-crafted poems. Places and faces submerge into unraveling the poetic strength Rachna brings into this collection. ---- AMARENDRA KHATUA