GARGI'S POEMS

GARGI'S poems are trying to setout the tension between theworlds, of the environment and place on one hand and on the other the complexassociations of an inherited culture. As a poet she has a sensory life in oneworld, its light, weather and topography shapes all that belongs to physicalbeing, while the larger part of what comes through language, knowledge, derivesfrom another. The translation of self into consciousness, to try and affect aconvergence of the non-indigenous and indigenous imagination or dreaming is toform her poems. The poems have an illogical inner reality and unforced beautyemerges from a distinctly female perspective. Her isolated sensibility ragesagainst destructiveness and behind obedience. Deceptively casual, the poemsdemonstrates her craft, wit, grace of expression and above all, her gift withimages.