Split in Two
- ISBN-10
- 8181572807
- ISBN-13
- 9788181572806
- Series
- Split in Two
- Pages
- 70
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Individual
- Author
- Michael Chacko Daniels
Description
Michael Chacko Daniels’ Split in Two An Introduction By Ralph Dranow Split in Two, Michael Chacko Daniels’ revised and enlarged second edition of poems, published by Writers Workshop in Kolkata, India, is an elegant book in design and content. This handcrafted, hardback edition, with its handsome cover, looks put together with exquisite care. And so do the poems. Daniels is a deft artisan of language, as well as a writer of open heart and keen intelligence. He is equally at home with family portraits, philosophical musings, love poems, wry self-reflection, and satire. Included in the first section, San Francisco 1969-70, is the lovely poem “Waiting For India in His Room.” The poem’s narrator speaks of his difficulty fitting into a new culture, made strange by its “vague discords,” and of his search for an authentic life: “I know it will be today the sunlight will become a steady glow will grow on me will call to mind what it is to say to a crow in monsoon lands ‘I will sing of you’….” “Settling into a Trickle” is also from this section. The poem reveals a high level of self-awareness, and also Daniels’ inventiveness and risk-taking, his ability to create visually arresting poems by means of the placement of words and letters. But who am I trying to fool? I cannot erupt not even boil curdle blister through scales grown over from other thoughts arousals desires that settle me into a t r i c k l e From Section II, Bombay 1965-67, comes the transcendent “The Crow In Monsoon Lands”: His ugliness would mortify milady But my dear See how he is beaten gold by the sun And my dear could you with all your concoctions Merge as he does his ebony-black With sun-gold sky-blue tree-green cloud-grey? And from the last section, Midas Can & Other Poems l973-l990, comes the poignant poem written about Daniels’ mother, who has just received a telegram announcing her mother’s death. Mother read the telegram, then returned to the kitchen and cleaned fish for father’s feverish diabetic dinner. No culinary step was abbreviated or clumsily forgotten. Moment after moment, movement after movement. This continuity in mundane action was her mother’s ultimate hereditary success, though death had cut the physical tie. Only after the day’s duty was done did Mother retreat wordlessly to the white-tiled bathroom, where, drowned by the lukewarm shower, she wrung out her pain. This introduction just scratches the surface of the treasure trove that awaits you with this beautiful, poignant, and wryly funny book. Don’t miss a rich reading opportunity. _________ Ralph Dranow is a widely published poet who lives and works in Oakland, California. He has an oral history business, “This Is Your Life,”.
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- 2019-08-01
- 120 pages
- Ebook
- Millbrook Press
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- 2009
- 120 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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