# Flitting Oddments

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2020/12/29/flitting-oddments/
- Published: 2020-12-29T21:31:52+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Anil Pradhan[⌊A sample cover of the book: yellow coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Flitting-Oddments-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 92 **Year of Publication:** 2020 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-81-946740-
8-5 (9788194674085)

_**About the Author**_
 Based in Kolkata, Anil Pradhan is pursuing doctoral research
at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, and his academic interests include
Indian queer and diasporic literatures and cultures. He writes poetry to, in his
words, “make some sense of life”.

_**Teaser**_

_crisis_

my words often write themselves, in nonchalance
 hanging together in little myriad
acquaintances like plump grapes upon woody capillaries like morning dew on ignorant
dandelions what if one fine autumn afternoon they find their affinity lost in silence
what if they realize the crisis too late, that conjunctions, prepositions, similes
have left have abandoned, forgotten, exiled themselves in fear of anagnorisis, of
catharsis of denouement, of inevitable death and upon such a figment of tragic consolation
what if i find a sudden thirst for poetic epiphany like crimson wildfire in search
of turquoise shores like faint goodbyes unheard at untimely farewells like questions
left hanging at the middle of the night maybe my words will remain just words signifying
nothing as they always conspire to do swirling within the fog of imagination tormented
by the caress of memory

_**Contents**_
 41 poems spread across 7 sections