Vincent's Ear  (Paperback, Aradhana Gawai)

The name Vincent’s Ear is inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s incident of cutting his left ear off. Here the ‘Ear is Love’ and we all are Vincent- cutting off the ear and leaving a little piece of it there as a remembrance. What’s more difficult then defining love? There’s so many kinds and here I’m talking about one of them. Not the ‘You give me butterflies’ kind but ‘Being with you feels like coming home’ kind. Not the ‘I’ll do this for you because you want me to’ but the ‘I’m doing this for you because I want to ‘cuz I love you’ kind. The self-less one with true intimacy. A bit away from calls and texts and a bit closer to love letters and eye talks. As we know, love is not all roses- it has thorns, toxic ones too. The heartache, miseries, sorrows, sufferings and never - ending synonyms of how bitter love can be, I know it. It’s written in more of a classic over a contemporary way of writing. With this collection I’m trying to convey a journey of anybody who’s ever been in love. It’s sequenced story like collection where all the initial poems are about slowly falling in love gradually living in love and dying in it finally flying out of it.