Bare Soul (Poetry)
Author: Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
ISBN: 979-8-9896607-8-0
Publisher: River Paw Press
Page Count: 122
Language: English
Covering the contradictory pain and immensity of love, the temptation and torture of sin, and the turmoil of the creative process, the poet searches for self-realization in baring her soul in poems of rich imagery and metaphor connecting her to nature and the whole world. — Rob Vollmar (United States) World Literature Today
Ever since Leaves of Grass first appeared in 1855, we find Walt Whitman simultaneously falsely imitated and truly manifesting in America. Who would have thought that his latest local incarnation would be in the body and the soul of an exceptional woman born in Gaya, Bihar, India, where the Buddha experienced Enlightenment? Yet here he is… Kalpna Singh-Chitnis’s Bare Soul is a rapturous Song of Herself. — Jack Foley (United States)
English words that echo the phonemes of ancient tongues. Texts as if unearthed from a three-thousand-year-old manuscript by an archaeologist—or perhaps written three thousand years after us. — Matvii Smirnov (United Kingdom)
Indeed, her verse may remind the reader of Rumi, the Sufis and mystics—but Rumi, the Sufis and mystics in fine English, with an ear for its native rhythms. For Kalpna’s voice is as original and cross-cultural as it is universal and classic. — Jennifer Reeser (United States)
Poetry lives in its own internal maps of time and space… Kalpna writes poems as if she were on an ancient quest… — Ihor Pavlyuk (Ukraine)
Kalpna writes with the presence of ancient poets such as Rumi, Hafiz and Omar Khayyám. Her soul is ancient and yet her incarnation is contemporary. Her poetry transcends the boundaries of literary analysis, soaring above the need to categorize or dissect or label with names as much of English literature is approached. — Amata Natasha Goldie (Australia)
As with every good poet, nostalgia is one of the peculiar features of her poetry, thus making it like surrendering of self to an ancient dream, flowing through a bygone era and remembering a forgotten love. Kalpna’s poetry is not a nine days’ wonder, because her poetic quest is towards an ultimate infinity. — Naseer Ahmed Nasir (Pakistan)
Francis Bacon once said, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.” Bare Soul certainly belongs to the third category of the books. — Dr. Mallika Tripathi (India) Literary Quest
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