Kavitha
Balakrishnan’s poems is a culture with different layers, a gallery of
micro politics and micro linguistics .Her poems try to create every
extent of contemporaneity which is beyond the world of women where she
is generally discussed. Thus the poems become an epistemological break
from the regular views of feminine poetry.
Kavitha doesn’t write poetry, doesn’t sketch poetry either. Some poems are framed in a pattern in between writing and sketching. A graphical process of transferring visuals to writing and vice versa , is experimented here. Words become an extension of the visuals and the visuals follow the same. Therefore each poem has varied subjects. In the same way diversed hues in a canvas gives manifold meanings possible, echoes of different nature towards innumerable subjects are made in poetry.
Some poems are creations of a cartoonist and of an animator. In such poems unsymmetrical humour barges in. They screw in to the depths of many implied meanings.
Kavitha write poems in this way, not because she is an artist. In her, there is an attitude of a traveller sans destination. Her poems are a queer blend of a world which always unmasks its complexities and hidden grace to a wanderer and the responses to that world.
‘A dynamic work of art may emerge from an internally venturesome rambles and a different perspective of a traveller whose travels are never ending ‘says Griselda Pollock ,an art critic and historian. What she says seems to be true in Kavitha.
Her poems remind of bridges being built between isles of memmories ,histories and culture that shreds from hollow contemporaneity while remaining contemporary .
The poet’s voice is noteworthy in the Indian English poetry, I feel so.
Kavitha doesn’t write poetry, doesn’t sketch poetry either. Some poems are framed in a pattern in between writing and sketching. A graphical process of transferring visuals to writing and vice versa , is experimented here. Words become an extension of the visuals and the visuals follow the same. Therefore each poem has varied subjects. In the same way diversed hues in a canvas gives manifold meanings possible, echoes of different nature towards innumerable subjects are made in poetry.
Some poems are creations of a cartoonist and of an animator. In such poems unsymmetrical humour barges in. They screw in to the depths of many implied meanings.
Kavitha write poems in this way, not because she is an artist. In her, there is an attitude of a traveller sans destination. Her poems are a queer blend of a world which always unmasks its complexities and hidden grace to a wanderer and the responses to that world.
‘A dynamic work of art may emerge from an internally venturesome rambles and a different perspective of a traveller whose travels are never ending ‘says Griselda Pollock ,an art critic and historian. What she says seems to be true in Kavitha.
Her poems remind of bridges being built between isles of memmories ,histories and culture that shreds from hollow contemporaneity while remaining contemporary .
The poet’s voice is noteworthy in the Indian English poetry, I feel so.
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