PAPERBOATS – VOLUME 2

Description

The title Paperboats is a subtle suggestion of aimless wandering of thoughts and sensations evoked in the poet’s sensitive heart and soul by myriad aspects of life, that leave behind a trail of ruffles in his inner calm. Over the poems assorted between the flaps, a looming shadow of fragility and flux, and a subdued longing for rest are palpable. At times the voice of the poetic persona breaks into an elegiac chant on life as a flotsam on the cresting tides of modernist ethos or zeitgeist.

About the Author

DR JAY SANKAR BASU, who writes poems in the pen-name Jay Basu, has been teaching English Literature and Language across universities in West Bengal over the last three and a half decades. He was born on the 10th of August, 1956, in a small town of North Bengal, India. At present, he is working as Associate Professor of ELT [English Language Teaching] in Centre for Language, Translation and Cultural Studies, under the aegis of the School of Humanities of a premier State Open University in India. He is an author, published from abroad and India.