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Water and Waves

by Eugene Datta
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With the uncanny clarity of the born observer, Eugene Datta, standing at the site of a martyr's death in Ganderbal, Kashmir, recalls how "An old woman / sobbed without tears as oblong drops / of the mustard field shone through holes in her earlobes." Or he is in a coffee shop in Jadavpur, West Bengal, recalling his student days there, "and the lost faces wrapped / in that damp smell of the south wind in spring / (which made the heart twinge, / without fail, / in that one special way / that couldn't be named)." What becomes clear, as Datta moves fluidly across boundaries of countries and cultures, and his own past and present, is that he is an extraordinary writer-cosmopolitan, erudite, achingly lyrical. His poems remind me of why I came to poetry in the first place.- George Bilgere

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