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BEEHIVES: A COLLECTIOM OFJAY BASU’S PUBLISHED AND UBPUBLISHED POEMS presents a comprehensive range of his poetry across a pied landscape of the human experience of life. At a first glance it may seem a random assortment of themes, motifs and archetypes. A deeper delve will underscore a stream of thoughts and impressions that crisscrosses a sprawling terrain with ripples of rhythm and ruminations that Jay Basu as a distinctively sensitive soul in quest of love, light, peace and harmony in an upturned world. Poetry here is the articulation of deep introspection over almost all the facets of experiential reality that stir the soul of man in space-time continuum. It prods the reader to stake his/her perception in the deep text to the point of deconstruction, and look for a higher language – a language that leaves a lingering impress on his/her mind and realign his/her perception vis-a-vis the fragments of life as experienced across borders and barriers. Tonal variations and attitudinal shifts that orchestrate with metaphoric echoes and symbolic undertones, mark the poetry of Jay Basu as typically modernist. Yet at the heart of his poetry there is a palpable angst, the melancholy of an eternal romantic and shooting flickers of spirituality. Poems here are supposedly delightful read.
Dr. Jay Sankar Basu
Dr Jay Sankar Basu pens his poems in the name of Jay Basu. Embedded in his poems is a vision that gently sways from a suave satire on human follies to a deep quest for eternity.He has been teaching English Literature and Language at UG Honours and PG levels over the last three decades. At present, he is working as Associate Professor of ELT at Centre for Language, Translation and Cultural Studies, under the aegis of the School of Humanities in a Premier State University, Govt. of West Bengal, India. He is a published author from India and abroad, on a wide spectrum of subjects – from Critical Discourses on modernist Fiction and Film to Poetry. Groomed and educated in Kolkata (Calcutta) he now lives in Kalyani, a serene and green university township in West Bengal
