Like a Movie Subtitle

By Subhash Babu

READ LIKE PROSE. THIS BOOK OF PHOTO-PROSE-POEMS A UNIQUE COMPOSITION IN THE ART OF WRITING A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF PICTURE, PROSE and POEMS A UNIQUE COMPETENCY OF ABSTRACT, CONCRETE and LUCIDITY A UNIQUE CELEBRATION FOR EYES, INTELLECT AND MIND. .........This is some sort of a photo-feature, Subhash presents before us in a strikingly different poetic genre... I would even term it filmy poems........... ..............The visuals gaining more prominence than the words ? Not likely............ .....He comes forth with this excellent breed where the pictures combine with the words in all elegance; very often the pictures holding an unmistakable edge over words........ ….... Photos are actually captured moments from the unending flux of life; and as such they have a link with slowness......  Only very few modern writers like Milan Kundera extol slowness and its nuances… ........These random ramblings along with the colourful shots, at times abstract, at times concrete do make an exquisite ensemble; ...there is an ongoing interplay between them ever stretching your creative mind further, which renders the product unique and lovable…... Critic: Asha Menon (Excerpts from Preface)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9789948831181

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Dedication

To my Mother

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Subhash Babu 2021

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ISBN – 9789948831174 – (Paperback)

ISBN – 9789948831181 – (E-Book)

Application Number: MC-10-01-5888358

Age Classification: 13+

First Published 2021

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Acknowledgement

COURTESY:

The images used in these poems appeared as a part of the daily news in the media like BBC / CNN / GULF NEWS / TIMES OF INDIA etc. In fact, these images had spoken to me more than its short span of life-cycle…

I do pay my sincere gratitude to the media for being the source of my writings…

Also I do pay my boundless gratitude to a gifted writer, author, and reviewer of world art and literature—Sri. Asha Menon who presented a preface for my composition.

Moreover, I do pay my sincere gratitude to the publisher, Austin Macauley

Subhash

PREFACE

Artful Musings

This is some sort of a photo-feature, Subhash presents before us in a strikingly different poetic genre... I would even term it filmy poems, though they have to scale a little more to achieve poetic beauty. You would observe that he has captioned it – Like a Movie Subtitle – so unassuming, so beguiling. Does he attach so much significance to the visuals here? Probably, for it was these visuals that motivated his sensibility to conceive a book-form in this style. I wonder if he really considers his random ramblings only as subtitles! You don’t feel like capturing sub-titles while watching a movie - it would somehow convey even if you miss the articulations! It is a visual art mostly. Does he classify his work like that? The visuals gaining more prominence than the words ? Not likely, for however keen he would be on social media he won’t shirk his sensibility to any extent -- a sensibility that drew us closer more than two decades ago. He could get to the crux of any fictional work so easily and be ready for any meaningful debate over it.

Afterwards things went blank and I lost all the coordinates that brought us together in the literary sphere. Soon he drifted elsewhere and moved away, traceless. Then he comes forth with this excellent breed where the pictures combine with the words in all elegance; very often the pictures hold an unmistakable edge over words. That should be obvious, I feel, he first glimpsed these pictures and then only thought of them through metaphors. You may observe all these poetic expressions have something in common; they are dotted with casualness. What strikes you immediately is etched there, leaving no room for speculation. That is the way of being fast, though it does hardly belittle its merit. And this is undoubtedly a product of fastness. That is how the world gets paced now, though the pandemic has retarded its pace considerably…I have a notion that he did conceive this text before the spread of this pandemic.

Slowness, on the contrary is being discarded. Only very few modern writers like Milan Kundera extol slowness and its nuances.

Photos are actually