Navigating the Quartz Forest - Softcover

Roy, Biman

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798893307832

Publisher: Arpress, 2021

Synopsis

Each dreamlike lyric in Biman Roy's Navigating the Quartz Forest is charmingly paired with a small handwritten note hastily jotted down on blue-lined notebook paper-artifacts from his daughter's life outside the family home. "All through the evening, we keep talking nonessentials, / tiptoeing around secret tulips," he says. These notes, like scraps of overheard conversations removed from their natural habitats, become the crystalline seeds of new poems. Side-by-side with each other, the poems act as translator for these somewhat oracular messages from an unknown world of teenage gossip and pop culture references, fitting the pieces together like a shattered mirror and filling in the jagged-edged gaps with the poet's expansive imagination. In Navigating the Quartz Forest, Roy's whimsical poems become a sparkling tribute from a father to his beloved daughter.

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About the Author

Biman Roy has been writing poetry for the past three decades and has been widely published.His writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart award.Biman Roy is the author of one chapbook of prose poems, "Of Moon and Washing Machine," and two other poetry chapbooks, "Dinosaur Hour" and "Navigating the Quartz Forest." He is a psychiatrist by profession and serves as a consultant in a hospital in New Yorkand lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arpress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798893307832
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42