An Earth Full of Gratitude: A Collection Poems

Reading An Earth Full of Gratitude by Ranjith Sivaraman is like entering a soft dusk where moonlight and incense meet--an intimacy that wants to be felt before it is named. This is a collection of poems that merges nature imagery, human emotions, and human psychology into a gorgeous tapestry of philosophy. Representing minute details of romantic intensities with a strong conviction in the truth of love, the poems register small bodily truths: waiting without agitation, noticing expression before speech, sensing emotion before it is spoken. In a world thick with facades, these pages offer a soft insistence that true love--patient, pink, demanding, forgiving--still takes root. Sivaraman's feminine imagery--craving, moon, mist, tender lap--meets male desire--wolf, howl, hunger, strength, determination--not to reduce love to bodies, but to show how eros and eros's restraint braid into devotion; where science maps neurotransmitters, this book maps the soul's circuitry. This book does not explain devotion; it is devotion--an earthly, luminous practice, guide, contribution, and gratitude to love. In short, this collection is an elegy and a laboratory both--where pain and joy are braided, and the final finding is as beautiful and simple as true love.

Pagina's: 104, Hardcover, Resource Publications