The Waves on Water: An Open Diary

By Krati Jain

The Waves on Water is a dramatic and emotional semi-autobiographical life story of a girl (La Chica del Agua), fictionally extrapolating inspiration from elements of the authors personal life which she finds metaphorically similar to Water. It is a diary, put together by diary entries of 50 poems (Whispers), ranging from domestic realisations to surreal epiphanies and progressing from the scientific to the artistic. The poems are organised into six cyclical and chronological but linguistically and contextually inter-allusive chapters (Waves), each appropriate to a new stage of life. The reader is led smoothly through a journey of emotional ups and downs (Crests and Troughs) to ponder over each cryptic whisper in the narrative.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Aug 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543742008

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THE WAVES ON WATER

An Open Diary

KRATI JAIN

Copyright © 2017 Krati Jain. All rights reserved.

ISBN

978-1-5437-4199-5 (sc)

978-1-5437-4200-8 (e)

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12/13/2017

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This book is dedicated

to my mom and dad for always encouraging me

to express myself and helping

me throughout the publication process,

to my sister, Urvi, for always giving me

an honest opinion on my writing, and

to Anushka, for bringing out the poet in me.

FOREWORD

The poems in this volume work out a very interesting balance between the particular and the abstract, drawing upon personal experience for reflections, insights, and a form of sharing that is personal without being confessional. They are like a conversation between friends, intimate without becoming intrusive. Like all good conversation, they also have a way of putting the reader at ease, and then directing attention to this or that little nuance of daily living and interaction, observed with care and precision, and an oblique approach that is at once charming and decorous—because the private can be shared in public when handled