In the Gossamer of Imagination

By Sneha Biswas

Sneha Biswass poems are spun around deep and scarred stories of emotionally distraught characters trapped in real lifelike and complex circumstances. This is her first published work, a collection of poemsmost of which she drew from her own memories of personal experiences.

The Dilemma of a Bengali American Immigrant expresses individuals internal crisis while traversing between cultures; one that is deep-rooted, and another that is adopted over the years living in exile in a foreign country. Gossip Mongers of the District of Si gives real-life instances of petty women who engage in slanderous activities.

A stay-at-home mother faces many challenges in bringing her daughters up and fights to claim her own identity back in Mishas Identity Now that of a Mother. Mishas wrenching tale showcases her immense strength and endurance while trying to survive an already-failed marriage. A womans lingering nostalgia of the past that still haunts her present sometimes can be seen in Rashis One and Only Love Rahel. It is a poignant work that will move you to the point of almost breaking you down. In
A Dusky Beauty Named Devi, she celebrates the freedom-loving dark-skinned beauty who appears to be aging in reverse. Her uniquely different characteristics are what sets her apart from her contemporaries.

In In the Gossamer Imagination, we get to peek into the lustful mind of a woman. Neha in Heaven Found is of an unhappy, neglected wife who finds new interest in her husbands friend as she secretly covets him in her heart. The events that follow thereafter will almost blow your mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984513076

Sneha Biswas

Let me introduce her by saying that she is a brooder and a lustful wanderer at heart. She has a quest for the unknown and finds pleasure in traveling to different countries’ parts. She is a connoisseur of good food and art. She has a knack for solving life’s problems and feels high from the little discoveries she makes in her head. She was born and raised on Indian soil and lives in Seattle with her two daughters and her husband. She has seen and lived the American life for the past seven years. However, she remains a humble Indian at heart. She likes the rain but not so much the rainy weather. She often turns to writing on days depression takes the better of her and sees herself getting ruined in it. Her first work was a collection of poems namely, In the Gossamer of Imagination. It was published almost a few years back, in the year 2018, and sold many copies, mostly bought by her inner social circle she likes to sit and dine with. It is for them a precious piece of her work that she has written down in the form of a collectible. Needless to say, a keepsake that transcends every dimension that denies all the facades of time and space, and traveling into another era of broken minds and hearts is her next story that makes women fall apart. Through her next work, You and Me, Never Us, she has given more sexual dreams than one can take. Your underwear might well get wet. It gives you mysteries of the mind and slays the devil inside. It is a pleasure-seeking book with anecdotes of love and life and light and self-realizations in daily life. It is an accomplishment of a mother, how she becomes her own world, and a warrior that truly gains courage, might, flavor, and harmony while splitting into two in her head. This work of excellence speaks volumes about the author herself who is excellent in prose writing, almost tragic in many ways. It is this author that will stir you and make you believe there is more than what meets the eye in her beautifully lyrical writing. Sneha Biswas’s best work thus which needs to be read with a better pair of eyes. She implores everyone to check on others for depression in marriages as it can be life-threatening and affect mental life and health. Good and bad marriages exist, and this is definitely one that tells you another story, a life that has become lifeless and almost mortified. In her years as she passes through pregnancy and then motherhood, self-love becomes her greatest strength.

Book preview

When the mind wanders

A brooder by nature I ruminate sitting on my favorite couch,

An unquenchable desire to know the unknown is suddenly aroused.

Curiosity like a curious cat questions the unpredictability of existences that surrounds.

Why certain individuals’ disposition is melancholic and morose?

Why cannot human relationships be simple and sound?

Why do people often feel fettered to a structure called society?

Why cannot living be a painting where colors intersperse to add variety?

Why we are not treated equally and some people always remain wealthier?

Why is there poverty all around and some people unaffected altogether?

Why do they choose to live in their glass menageries, to play with plastic dolls, knits and feathers?

Why cannot the lustful wanderer in me explore the histories and cultures of places not found?

Why do I have to stifle the wildness that wants to break all shackles?

Perhaps I am born a woman by conventions bound.

Why cannot I leave life’s worries aside and sit idly to watch on my ceiling the wiggling rays of sunlight?

Why it is that getting drenched in the Monsoon rains is feared beyond reasons bright?

Why do the blossoming flowers produce fragrances that attract only the bees enabling pollination?

Why should some people be the butt of naughty innuendoes?

Is it the desire of the powerful to bully a weakling to expose his follies?

The pen is mightier than the sword I have learnt

Then why am I hesitant to express loud and clear my heart’s anguishes and its desires burnt?

Why cannot I recognize the person I see in the mirror now?

Is it because I have lost my earlier self in the recesses of past times?

Why do not the tales of yore fascinate me anymore?

Is it