Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
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Atreya Sarma is a culturally rooted yet genuinely contemporary urban poetic voice. Pure and unveiled in quality most remarkable is his verbal felicity. Ambika Ananth
An exciting journey into the diversity of lifes experiences. Avril Meallem
Direct and frank the style in tandem with the subjects he explores; sometimes irreverent, sometimes playful, sometimes thoughtful and reflective and sometimes audacious. Charanjeet Kaur
His word power is immensely strong, trenchant and precise too. Elanaaga(Surendra Nagaraju)
Elegant in imagery the daily chores flesh out with economy and resonance. Gopal Lahiri
An outstanding work of poetry meticulously curated, encompassing the relativity of relationships and their earthly moments and manifestations. KiritiSengupta
He chooses his topics carefully and lavishes them with the attention they need, adroitly employing language that suits the setting. Sanjeev Sethi
A vibrant debut collection from a seasoned writer and critic showcasing experimental verse, linguistic play and nuances of Indian English. UshaKishore
U Atreya Sarma
U Atreya Sarma, from Hyderabad, has published about 700 pieces of writing – poetry, book-reviews, translations, articles, editorials, forewords. A core editor of museindia.com, and a freelancer for two decades, he has also been presenting contemporary poets in The Hans India (Sunday section). The books he (a) edited, (b) translated, or (c) collaborated on are: (a) Lung Care and Long Life; Memoirs & Musings of an IAS Officer; Turquoise Tulips; Prolegomena and Transformative Articles on Literary Translation; Gian Singh Shatir (a revised eponymous fictional autobiography, awaiting publication); (b) Salt of the Earth; Thousand Hoods (Ch 9-14)); (c) Marapuraani Maanikyaalu.
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Sunny Rain-N-Snow - U Atreya Sarma
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Contents
Foreword
Preface
These poets say…
Acknowledgments
Femina
1. A housewife’s lib
2. Crush and finish it!
3. WWW: Woman’s World of Woes
4. The dead mother blesses
Facets of Nature
5. Hills
6. Aesthetic to the bathetic
7. Cerulean cornucopia
8. Oh, Emperor of Seasons!
9. Terrace twilight
10. Cloud’s sibling
11. In the bosom of a breezy hill
12. Summer & Spring bid adieu
Epiphanies
13. Iron maiden
14. Phantasmagoria
15. Vertigo
16. The mermaid
17. Nocturnal bliss
Americana
18. A different game of hearts
19. Bear hugs on the Bear Lake
20. Freeze this moment
21. My swan queen
22. Tons of blooms
23. Wow, what a white magic!
Musings on poesy
24. Cradle of Poesy
25. That my poetry is, too…
Relations & equations
26. Ah, what a friendship!
27. Made for each other
28. Faces of friendship
Romantic peeps
29. My dream girl
30. My simple song
31. Lip-lapping
32. Ouch, a forced bachelor!
33. Valentines
Reflectively yours
34. A riot of colours!
35. Baby relativity
36. Bull’s eye
37. Human orbits
38. Man… Powerful or powerless?
39. My tears for the underdog
40. Orectic oddities
41. Sin under the Sun
42. Tantrums of Nature
43. Truth – A casualty
44. Unpaid watchman
Social bristles
45. A tryst with the terrorist
46. Shalom! Shalom! Shalom!
47. Toast To The Terrorist [TTTT]
48. Your tender hand
49. Let’s succour our Nepali brethren
Tongue-in-cheek
50. An exotic-n-quixotic affair
51. Femmes fatales
52. My atheist friend
53. Facebook escapades
54. What’s in a name, Ms Rosie?
Occasional voices
55. A cold volcano
56. Holi voice
57. Rakhi broadband: Verbal cartoons
58. Sun-Kranti
59. To my birthday baby
Metrical forays
60. Limericks
61. Swimming snare
62. The Caribbean Coolies: An enduring saga
63. The case of a chronic rake
Foreword
Discovering fresh vistas of change; witnessing newer realms – that is the poetry of Atreya for you. Breathless. As the beauty unfolds within the pages, a journey starts. You rewind to a similar phenomenal experience underwent in Europe as a tourist.
After landing in Billund, Denmark, two years ago, a grand spectacle unfolded. The entire town was a stage adorned by nature. As we walked on the streets, the general view was spectacular! Such splendor – never seen. Nature served at her best. The changing colours and the woodlands – and the stunning view – lend a new perspective on life and its meaning.
Reading a book of poetry can be sometimes an identical experience, a shocking realization of realms beyond. As a landscape sings for you alone and alters your view of reality, similarly a book of poetry – a text containing the unseen in the seen – performs the same task for a serious reader interested in epistemologies of the universe and forms of cognition. Such a work talks – in an intimate voice. As a countryside converses with a hungry soul.
U Atreya Sarma’s debut collection Sunny Rain-n-Snow offers such a similarly fantastic view of things around – dusted and cleaned and bright – and acts as a door-opener on mystical realms. It is pure luck, if perchance you get to slowly immerse in a soon-to-be-launched book and gleefully feel lost within its wonderland, architecture, shifting tonal varieties and vistas majestic. It is like watching a Spielberg movie.
Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a gentle cruise along routes, old and new. Like every journey undertaken to a place known or obscure, visiting first time or second, a traveller comes to develop new insights and have a few of the new takeaways; you discover and gather fresh sensations and sensory impressions about old places and people, through an accomplished poet functioning as the senior guide. An anthology of 63 poems, the inner rhythms, the energetic lines, the sonorous word-play, the startling spectacles rolling out fast – the combo jolts you out of a dull reverie and makes you perceive the common things vividly, in a new light.
The gifted Atreya – admired for his scholarship, editing and translating skills, and writing prowess – proves his reputation as a poet of exceptional talent. Words flow like a river in spate; images pop up in quick succession; milieus keep on shifting with breathless speed and intensity and the entire book becomes a rollercoaster joy ride.
Sample this little gem, Hills
–
God turned
All hardness
Into hills.
Harder-hearted man
Entered
And began blasting them.
Such an economy! Such a fine grasp! The poet is able to sum up the degradation of nature so exquisitely here. It becomes an anthem for the greens.
Atreya’s style is lyrical, enchanting! English malleable and sweet! It yields to his expert hands and shapes up into verbal units of sheer delight – aural and visual.
Just a sample from Bear hugs on the Bear Lake,
a poem celebrating love and romance of a recently-married couple –
On the bare Bear Lake he