Bureaucrat Mukul Kumar releases third poetry collection
Testimony to Divinity, the collection’s first poem, features a common theme with Kumar’s work: nature is so beautiful that it proves the existence of God.
Rhythm of the Ruins is a compilation of 53 poems. (Photo: Amazon) Mukul Kumar, a bureaucrat by day and poet by night, has come out with his third poetry collection, Rhythm of the Ruins [The Browser, Rs 495], a compilation of 53 poems revolving around anecdotes from his personal life, observations of nature and reflections on the writing process. Like his previous collection, Catharsis, the poems are rendered with an endearing honesty, but ultimately fall flat on their awkward rhythms, clichéd metaphors, and distracted thematic focus.
Testimony to Divinity, the collection’s first poem, features a common theme with Kumar’s work: nature is so beautiful that it proves the existence of God. Its alliteration is accessible and its imagery strong, but the ‘divine’ examples of nature chosen are too generic for effect. There are ‘springs’, ‘birds’, ‘bees’ and ‘butterflies’, ‘nameless pleasures’, and ‘birds unknown’, but no specifics to ground the reader.
Mukul Kumar, a bureaucrat by day and poet by night. (Photo: Mukul Kumar)
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