Harvest Of Light, A

A Harvest of Light is a collection of fifty-three poems on a variety of themes. What marks them is a strikingly different ‘voice’ in Indian poetry. The poet’s sharp observation of nature and of relationships blends at times with an almost surreal diction; she uses words like an ‘abstract thinker’, so that images emerge for the reader from beyond the literal sense of the lines to form a shifting landscape of meaning. Vivid though her descriptions of objects in the outer world may be, she is definitely a poet of the inner world. This is an unusual book of poems.