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    Drenched by the Sun
    Drenched by the Sun
    Drenched by the Sun
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    Drenched by the Sun

    By Syam Sudhakar

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    DRENCHED BY THE SUN

     

    I, who prophesy

    by reading the stars and the wind,

    now think of that country …

    - excerpt from poem ‘Green Sun’

     

     

    Syam Sudhakar ‘has an eye for the strange and the uncanny and a way of building translucent metap

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher31556151122
    Release dateJan 8, 2016
    ISBN9780994419972
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      Drenched by the Sun - Syam Sudhakar

      Foreword

      Of fables and dreams

      Syam Sudhakar’s world is one of fabulous animals, surreal images and omnipresent death. He has an eye for the strange and the uncanny and a way of building translucent metaphors. At times his poems tend to be dialogues as happens in ‘Green Sun’ or ‘Due’. In the former, it is a conversation between the Spanish red and the Indian green – the red possibly standing for the bloodshed in the bull fight, the bullfighter’s red scarf, or the red in some of the Picasso paintings, and the green representing regeneration, metamorphosis, like that of lips turning green with the touch of Malayalam. In ‘Due’, it is Gandhi who writes a letter to Jesus Christ asking him to get down from the cross, leave the church and walk among men without fear as he has already atoned for his sins. But Christ is scared as he is unarmed while Gandhi has a staff to defend himself, besides a cool head. However, the

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