# House of Song

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2017/12/16/house-of-song/
- Published: 2017-12-16T01:57:21+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Deeptesh Sen[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/House-of-Song.jpg)
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Pages:** 80 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
163-2 (9789350451632)

_**About the Author**_
 Deeptesh Sen holds an M.Phil. in English from Jadavpur University,
Kolkata. His poetry has been published in _The Statesman_ (Kolkata),_ The __Journal
of the Poetry Society_ (India), _Aainanagar_, _The Stare’s Nest, __Crab Fat Literary
Magazine, London Grip_ and _Cafe Dissensus Everyday_. His areas of research interest
are modernist poetry and psychoanalysis. He has freelanced for media and publishing
houses like Sportskeeda, Oxford University Press and Harper Collins. He blogs at
[www.deeptesh.net ](http://www.deeptesh.net/).

_**Teaser**_

_Confession_

-I-

Beyond laughter,
 there is always the conspiracy of desire.

Vacant indifference consumes you
 with a forlorn radiance.

Memory descends like laughter
 along the steep path of solitude.

Winter has the smell of dust and confession
 from your lover’s attic, long forgotten.

The night carries the taste of sweat
 from unkempt city windows, spilling with cold
laughter.

You smother her unmooned body
 with the lingering beauty of silence.

-II-

Her desire is a myth,
 gently swaying in the quiet shadow of laughter.

Lips burning,
 with the politeness of death, in floating asylums of speech.

Water burning
 behind the door of moonfall, and laughter.

You stare
 at the strange geometry of laughter with the rapture of failed restraint.

Laughter is the funeral of speech
 beyond which there is no dignity of horror.

Reviews of the book have appeared in_ [Cafe Dissensus](https://cafedissensusblog.com/2017/10/22/book-review-deeptesh-sens-house-of-song/)_
and_ _[_The New Indian Express_](http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/1463785/The-New-Indian-Express-Hyderabad/12-12-2017#page/24/2).

_**Contents**_
 43 poems