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040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a821 _bK122b
100			_aKailas, Madhu
245			_aThe boatman of Murshidabad _bselected poems _cMadhu Kailas
260			_aNew Delhi _bAleph Book _c2021
300			_axiii,104p
500			_aMadhu Kailas is the pen name of Kingshuk Basu.
520			_aIn this book, Madhu Kailas presents the poet’s engagement with art and creative liberation through startling imagery and innovative verse. In the title poem, ‘The Boatman of Murshidabad’, the eponymous boatman becomes a metaphor for torpor, loneliness, and the remorseless passing of time; in ‘The Day a Song Dared to Soar’, travellers return and pick new faces for rebirth; in ‘Keys Made of Sunshine’, a child grows up and learns to listen to silence; in ‘Silence of Butterflies’, golden silk strands cascade on to the green forest floor; and in ‘The Forest Sings’, the breeze preserves an arrangement of leaves and flowers in a secret language. Deeply felt and packed with insights into the human condition, The Boatman of Murshidabad is a dazzling collection of poems by an accomplished poet.
650			_aPoems
700			_aBasu, Kingshuk
942			_cBK
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