Standing by the Wayside

by Prem Kumari Srivastava

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A long-awaited first collection from Indian academic and poet Prem Kumari Srivastava.

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ISBN: 9781909404205 Pamphlet collection 36 pages

A long-awaited first collection from Indian academic and poet Prem Kumari Srivastava, Associate Professor of English at the University of Delhi. Her poetry is intertextual and layered, playfully weaving quotes from world classics into her own cultural contexts.

Standing on the Wayside is Prem’s first book of poems. The critic and the teacher in the poet stand on the wayside, waiting and watching out for poems to happen and perhaps take over.

Sukrita, poet and critic, India

Prem’s poetry is intertextual and layered with echoes playfully titillating the deeper dimensions of being — and how she transplants famous quotes from world classics into our own cultural contexts is interesting indeed.

Anamika, poet, India

Sample poem

Pasha

— Prem Kumari Srivastava 2015

How much do I love?A foolish dilemma.Proscribed?Most would say.But I know one who loved from the bottom of her heart.Patrician and a pasha of loveceded, sacrificed, submitted to the four that she cherished.I wonder today after years gone bywhat she did, was it right?They, who are god’s purest gift,become impure as the clock ticks away, recalcitrant.The one who stands uncontaminated is SHEIn a timeless zone, uncontestedbut by whom?Force majeureebullient, with a brioanda punchy topicality about life even as it trundled.A rich lode that memory will excavate.Ruminating on another note, resignedly, miltonicallyI justify the ways of God to men.God made mothers this way,dismembering both horizon and limit.Dispel the query andLove more and more.