Just Penned Thoughts

Welcome to the crazy poetic world of Dimple Nahata Jain, an ambivert for ages – gifted with extroversion to set the stage ablaze with her notoriously innocent manners, and doomed with introversion to drown in self-pity and tears – who deals in irony and oxymora with grace and ease. This anthology of 52 beautifully crafted poetic gems holds a mirror unto the life of a girl caught between two worlds – the inner world where prudent innocence and pure craving blend and clash in a ceaseless, voiceless whisper; and the outer world where pretensions, masks and materialism reign supreme. The tug of war is both exciting and exhilarating; at times it hurts too: deeply, like never before, because our poet believes in experiences, and as many poems in this anthology emphatically assert, experience is a matter of perspective. She plays with paradoxical emotions and yokes heterogeneous ideas with consummate ease. Her verses make one suspect schizophrenic bipolarity that only the most outrageously talented among the human race can flaunt, suffer from, and rejoice in.

This collection of confessional verse is about relationships, pain and pleasure. It depicts emotions at once static and dynamic, fleeting and eternal. Spontaneity characterizes the moods and emotions of the poetic persona. She is incredibly honest, straightforward and sweetly confessional about her experiences and feelings. The postmodernist and the liberal-humanist coexist in the poetic voice. Here we see God’s plenty. Here is an anthology we cannot afford to miss.

From the Foreword to the book by Prof. Manu Mangattu