# Crossing the Line

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2022/10/24/crossing-the-line/
- Published: 2022-10-24T19:12:34+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author: **Prantik Banerjee[⌊A sample cover of the book: dark purple 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/2022/10/Crossing-the-Line.jpeg)
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Pages: **94 **Year of Publication:** 2022 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-81-958199-
1-1 (9788195819911)

_**About the Author**_
 Prantik Banerjee teaches English in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
His first book of poems, _**A Postscript on Missing Keys**_, was published by **
Writers Workshop**, India.

_The Keeper of the Dead and Other Stories_ is his first collection of short stories,
published by Dattsons, Nagpur. He has also written _Cultural Studies: Texts and 
Contexts _and _Theory in Praxis: Discourses on Literature and Culture_.

His writings have appeared in Sahitya Akademi’s _Indian Literature, Journal of the
Poetry Society of India, PEN, Quest, Brown Critique, Kavya Bharati_, and online 
poetry sites. He was featured as Poet of the Month in “Stanza”, _Femina_, by Kamala
Das.

_**Teaser**_

_Poetry Meet_

We came together
 flashing our lipstick, fisting our cigarettes, clutching our lives
in desperate lines.

The room ironed out
 the strangeness, for the moment, as we settled down to a light-
hearted business; didn’t we, after all, solicit one another’s company? “It’s going
to be a long evening, friends,” the host announced, “of baring souls, parading pain–
hope you won’t mind a bloody verse or two!” As the pages turned and syllables skittered
in the air we injured a poetaster’s pride over a mixed metaphor, and killed another
wordlessly over a run-on line. For a few, we clapped grudgingly, munching wafers
until the soda ran out of fizz.

When we returned our separate ways
 with the lives of others clinging to our shirts,
the lines we had read were quickly forgotten.

_**Contents**_
 62 poems

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