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Description of the Book:
“Nobody ever asked me to speak,
In that den of the patriarchs
And I never spoke until the aches
Of my heart became inconsolable, ready
To rise aflame like a volcano,
To direct the sculptor's thoughts
And become Vintage, everlasting.”
Before 29 is a collection of confessional poems by Ms. Shruti Gaur. Focused on the fragility and evolution of human identity, it captures the snapshots of her experiences as a woman without a room of her own. Under the guise of personal experiences and confrontations, the poems also subtly raise questions about the hypocrisy of Indian middle-class society. The poems written in storytelling, conversational, and dialogic forms make the readers a part of the confrontation. It sometimes makes them overwhelmed at other times compels them to pause and reflect. Through her lucidity and contemporary references, the book urges a poetic resurrection, a movement to make poetry reading not a difficult choice!
Before 29
Author's Name: Shruti Gaur About the Author: A happy slave of life, Shruti Gaur, teaches English Literature at Jagannath Institute of Management Sciences. She's been a recipient of the Young Scholar's National Award for research by Mindshare YUVA and the Indraprastha Research Fellowship during her Academic Research at IP University. Her writings have been a part of International Journals like MELOW and Academic books. Somewhere in the middle of the silence and the chaos of her scholarly pursuits, she thinks about life and human nature. Her works are inspired by her lived experiences and the impact of spaces on the human mind. Book ISBN: 9789357741125