All the best Ivan for your wonderful and amazing words which make your book stand out.

This book is like a testimonial of the Ivan’s thoughts mainly relating to History, Philosophy and Nature.  Ivan, I liked your way of penning your poetries by naming them with alphabets.  You have exhibited an exemplary skill of narrating the historical palaces, as well.  This is just the first impression of browsing through your book.

“At what stage of love-making did you regain consciousness?”  Question to Zeu pater is mind blowing.  “Isn’t this questions so relatable to us, as well?”

Way of finding one’s own self-reflection in every aspect of nature which begins from 15th century BC with carefully woven words as in (B) is awesome, “They take the palms of their hands and set them against the fever hauling from the quarry thighs of marble ancient systems of depth”.  Ivan, this has left me wondering!!! From where did you gather this information?  This must have required lot of time to do such thorough research because you words signify historical aspects way back from 15th century.

Historical lines describing palaces as in (D), “It is heart rending do these days of endless moan and long afternoons within the ruins each stone a letter to be deciphered and then to sleep in dust anchored the mind to the flitting dream of being on thy careless brow such words shall I engrave ISIS MUMTAZ MAHAL BEATRICE”, and as in (E), “In the end we only know things partially.  Do we memorize the sounds but not the meaning?, and in (i) “A few small bee-hive tombs and beside them the larger mound the tumulus of Valum Votan false-necked jars and scarab of Queen Taia”

“We have been deceived as to our mortality abyss of wasted masks and all the muck and lies threnodies of broken strings, we go in blindness into the maze you no longer I no more we who used to be”.  Such philosophical lines these are.

In (X), “In the cave of sleep the tipping spoon of trouble the arc that holds the sky up the recent harbor where Jesus dwells, unseen the hands that wrap up night unfelt the body that falls from time into the origins of another universe”.  Exact words to the point of what really happens to all of us in sleep. Such apt question these were as I read, “Can the soul be dissected?”, and “Are there conjunct consonants on the sun?, What is the syntax of the competing winds?, What if the mind can ever come home again?”

Ivan, your penchant for spirituality and divinity is much evident in Omicron, “Divine or not so divine you are the Buddha”, and you have also vividly written about Mahabharata, Buddhahood, and tabula rasa.  This too is a part of history and holds its own significance.  I loved this contrast too in your lines, “There is no such thing as history, only an undifferentiated past wearing a monocle”

So wonderfully you have described about memories in your lines, “Gone and gone again me you and the southern sea of drowning the sleep of remembrances past the last and lilting the only and forever”, and In (p), “Dementia the frazzled rock formation silence, the unendurable wail at the end of the echo” complements your writing about memories.  I so much felt the contrast in remembering and forgetting.

Your journey of describing yourself as a Poet as in (z), “Where nothing really matters an ending to him to this to poetry to the land of sky blue Waters post faced endings to language to inhibitions of speech to status begging for tongues and sight for writing the over and over again and out zero”, and “I am the poet who has no door to unlock who is never the mask of the dream , I am the poet who is the fulano who begets histories”, and “Each person bears within the whole of the human debacle, each letter wears its own dawn and crepuscule” is marvelous.

Your mesmerizing lines in (v), “Tragic and sorrow and grieving what you must take with you and cannot distribute but to your lonesome self the run mind” will stay with me forever and the same will stay with the Readers because this is the final truth.  So true; tragedy, sorrow and pain is something no one can distribute!!!

Readers who love history as a subject, will find this book very interesting.  I will suggest; Readers; just go and grab this book.  It unfolds lots and lots of historical aspects which many of us don’t even know and have not even heard of.

All the best Ivan for your wonderful and amazing words which make your book stand out.  May this book bring you lot of fame and glory.

Regards,

Shubhaangi Kundalkar

Author, Justaju-in search of life

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