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    Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
    Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
    Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
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    Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure

    By U Atreya Sarma

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    A ROLLERCOASTER JOY RIDE Sunny Rain-n-Snow, the maiden collection of poetry by U Atreya Sarma, jolts you out of a dull reverie. Sunil Sharma
    Atreya Sarma is a culturally rooted yet genuinely contemporary urban poetic voice. Pure and unveiled in quality most remarkable is his verbal felicity. Ambika Ananth
    An exciting journey into the diversity of lifes experiences. Avril Meallem
    Direct and frank the style in tandem with the subjects he explores; sometimes irreverent, sometimes playful, sometimes thoughtful and reflective and sometimes audacious. Charanjeet Kaur
    His word power is immensely strong, trenchant and precise too. Elanaaga(Surendra Nagaraju)
    Elegant in imagery the daily chores flesh out with economy and resonance. Gopal Lahiri
    An outstanding work of poetry meticulously curated, encompassing the relativity of relationships and their earthly moments and manifestations. KiritiSengupta
    He chooses his topics carefully and lavishes them with the attention they need, adroitly employing language that suits the setting. Sanjeev Sethi
    A vibrant debut collection from a seasoned writer and critic showcasing experimental verse, linguistic play and nuances of Indian English. UshaKishore
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing India
    Release dateApr 30, 2016
    ISBN9781482868531
    Sunny Rain-N-Snow: An Olio of Poetry for Pleasure
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    U Atreya Sarma

    U Atreya Sarma, from Hyderabad, has published about 700 pieces of writing – poetry, book-reviews, translations, articles, editorials, forewords. A core editor of museindia.com, and a freelancer for two decades, he has also been presenting contemporary poets in The Hans India (Sunday section). The books he (a) edited, (b) translated, or (c) collaborated on are: (a) Lung Care and Long Life; Memoirs & Musings of an IAS Officer; Turquoise Tulips; Prolegomena and Transformative Articles on Literary Translation; Gian Singh Shatir (a revised eponymous fictional autobiography, awaiting publication); (b) Salt of the Earth; Thousand Hoods (Ch 9-14)); (c) Marapuraani Maanikyaalu.

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      Sunny Rain-N-Snow - U Atreya Sarma

      Copyright © 2016 by U Atreya Sarma.

      Front cover concept & Images: Author

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      These poets say…

      Acknowledgments

      Femina

      1. A housewife’s lib

      2. Crush and finish it!

      3. WWW: Woman’s World of Woes

      4. The dead mother blesses

      Facets of Nature

      5. Hills

      6. Aesthetic to the bathetic

      7. Cerulean cornucopia

      8. Oh, Emperor of Seasons!

      9. Terrace twilight

      10. Cloud’s sibling

      11. In the bosom of a breezy hill

      12. Summer & Spring bid adieu

      Epiphanies

      13. Iron maiden

      14. Phantasmagoria

      15. Vertigo

      16. The mermaid

      17. Nocturnal bliss

      Americana

      18. A different game of hearts

      19. Bear hugs on the Bear Lake

      20. Freeze this moment

      21. My swan queen

      22. Tons of blooms

      23. Wow, what a white magic!

      Musings on poesy

      24. Cradle of Poesy

      25. That my poetry is, too…

      Relations & equations

      26. Ah, what a friendship!

      27. Made for each other

      28. Faces of friendship

      Romantic peeps

      29. My dream girl

      30. My simple song

      31. Lip-lapping

      32. Ouch, a forced bachelor!

      33. Valentines

      Reflectively yours

      34. A riot of colours!

      35. Baby relativity

      36. Bull’s eye

      37. Human orbits

      38. Man… Powerful or powerless?

      39. My tears for the underdog

      40. Orectic oddities

      41. Sin under the Sun

      42. Tantrums of Nature

      43. Truth – A casualty

      44. Unpaid watchman

      Social bristles

      45. A tryst with the terrorist

      46. Shalom! Shalom! Shalom!

      47. Toast To The Terrorist [TTTT]

      48. Your tender hand

      49. Let’s succour our Nepali brethren

      Tongue-in-cheek

      50. An exotic-n-quixotic affair

      51. Femmes fatales

      52. My atheist friend

      53. Facebook escapades

      54. What’s in a name, Ms Rosie?

      Occasional voices

      55. A cold volcano

      56. Holi voice

      57. Rakhi broadband: Verbal cartoons

      58. Sun-Kranti

      59. To my birthday baby

      Metrical forays

      60. Limericks

      61. Swimming snare

      62. The Caribbean Coolies: An enduring saga

      63. The case of a chronic rake

      Foreword

      Discovering fresh vistas of change; witnessing newer realms – that is the poetry of Atreya for you. Breathless. As the beauty unfolds within the pages, a journey starts. You rewind to a similar phenomenal experience underwent in Europe as a tourist.

      After landing in Billund, Denmark, two years ago, a grand spectacle unfolded. The entire town was a stage adorned by nature. As we walked on the streets, the general view was spectacular! Such splendor – never seen. Nature served at her best. The changing colours and the woodlands – and the stunning view – lend a new perspective on life and its meaning.

      Reading a book of poetry can be sometimes an identical experience, a shocking realization of realms beyond. As a landscape sings for you alone and alters your view of reality, similarly a book of poetry – a text containing the unseen in the seen – performs the same task for a serious reader interested in epistemologies of the universe and forms of cognition. Such a work talks – in an intimate voice. As a countryside converses with a hungry soul.

      U Atreya Sarma’s debut collection Sunny Rain-n-Snow offers such a similarly fantastic view of things around – dusted and cleaned and bright – and acts as a door-opener on mystical realms. It is pure luck, if perchance you get to slowly immerse in a soon-to-be-launched book and gleefully feel lost within its wonderland, architecture, shifting tonal varieties and vistas majestic. It is like watching a Spielberg movie.

      Sunny Rain-n-Snow is a gentle cruise along routes, old and new. Like every journey undertaken to a place known or obscure, visiting first time or second, a traveller comes to develop new insights and have a few of the new takeaways; you discover and gather fresh sensations and sensory impressions about old places and people, through an accomplished poet functioning as the senior guide. An anthology of 63 poems, the inner rhythms, the energetic lines, the sonorous word-play, the startling spectacles rolling out fast – the combo jolts you out of a dull reverie and makes you perceive the common things vividly, in a new light.

      The gifted Atreya – admired for his scholarship, editing and translating skills, and writing prowess – proves his reputation as a poet of exceptional talent. Words flow like a river in spate; images pop up in quick succession; milieus keep on shifting with breathless speed and intensity and the entire book becomes a rollercoaster joy ride.

      Sample this little gem, Hills –

      God turned

      All hardness

      Into hills.

      Harder-hearted man

      Entered

      And began blasting them.

      Such an economy! Such a fine grasp! The poet is able to sum up the degradation of nature so exquisitely here. It becomes an anthem for the greens.

      Atreya’s style is lyrical, enchanting! English malleable and sweet! It yields to his expert hands and shapes up into verbal units of sheer delight – aural and visual.

      Just a sample from Bear hugs on the Bear Lake, a poem celebrating love and romance of a recently-married couple –

      On the bare Bear Lake he

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