Publisher's Synopsis
We all know what it feels to be happy but do we know what it is? We all know what the feelings of love and anger are, but do we know the mechanisms of its orchestration? Well, do we need to?Poetry is similar to feelings; we don't need to know what all the words mean as long as we feel it inside of ourselves. We don't need to know the poet's perspective to create our own. You don't need to know the word blue to know that the sky is.The word- filled pages are about all the things that you wish you said. All the things you have thought. All the things you wish were true. It inscribes all of it yet none at once. This is not some guide of happiness, some profound work of literature, which would help you to find the meaning of it all. This is your everyday musings of love, your daily struggle with being a juvenile, the injustice of the way the world works and much more.This book 'Sober Love Of Drunken Truths' pirouettes between the little poems of wonder and the long-drawn pieces of literature. You'll find yourself skipping to a new feeling with every page. The book will not take you through a smooth journey and leave you at a preconditioned destination, rather, like life itself, it will spring new feelings every couple of pages, and when, you turn the last page and wonder at the abruptness of the ending, you will realize that you didn't need it in the first place. You always knew it in your heart. Just like life. You always know the meaning of everything that happened when the end draws close.The poems like 'Saudade', talk about the unconventional ways of finding love but never being able to bask in it. While drastically on the other hand 'Blood Wins The Battle' talks about the passage of blood in wars. Some poems don't even have a title for I believed that the use of one will degrade its importance. These 'title-less' pieces tell us about people, whose beauty cannot be encompassed in a mere 100 words, it makes us aware of the scuffles of life and leaves us pondering over the idiosyncrasy of what we call life. The book is essentially split into two parts, a) Sober love and b) Drunken truths. The 'Sober Love' part of the book deals with not only romanticized love but also what it is to love life. It talks about the first time you see the one you are going to fall in love with, to the time when you have to part. It converses with us about the love that remains unrequited, and the ones that are fulfilled. All the desires and pain.The drunken truths tell well, drunken truths. The way life loses itself while you continue with your bland existence. The anger that boils inside with being treated less when you know more. What the sad truth of the system is, the blood, the lies and, the misguided ties. What is the first thing you notice when you wake up in the morning? Do we see the sun or feel its warmth? We feel the warmth. We feel things before we see them. We feel them before even knowing what it is. Even before understanding what we feel. This book is just that, a feeling. You don't need to try and understand what it means. You'll just know it. As said by Walt Whitman, "The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything." Nothing explains my book the way this quote does.I don't want to get into details of the book. I don't want to ruin the first time wonder of reading something. The human brain works on novelty and who am I to disregard its wishes? All I can wish for is that it reaches the right audiences. I hope that people recite my poetry in numerous places and more importantly that, they like it. Once again quoting Walt Whitman "There are no great poets, without great audiences."
