The Rays from the Third Horizon : Poems

Contents: Preface. 1. Winds of Barbaria. 2. Roads rugged with moss. 3. The confession of a spider. 4. To my friend. 5. The poet on the buffoon\'s back. 6. If I could be a man. 7. Call me a dreamer. 8. Ode to the last soldier. 9. In the shards. 10. A rose with a reason. 11. Pilgrims of the pavement. 12. The last in the crowd. 13. Hypatia implores. 14. Sketches at the threshold. 15. Waste and need. 16. The sins of sinners. 17. The one and the none. 18. The weed on the street. 19. Clouds of steel. 20. A tryst with death. 21. The third friend. 22. My last rose. 23. The spirit of labyrinths. 24. All the nows and thens. 25. Back once again. 26. The vines. 27. The black heaven. 28. Restive coop. 29. The great men. 30. Seedless trees. 31. Written on the earliest roots. 32. Call of the eyes. 33. The mighty. 34. The deviant. 35. A song for me. 36. In the battle. 37. The men of sorrow. 38. Doors of the merry enclave. 39. Bald gold fire. 40. Mortal fears. 41. A letter to my mother. 42. Legacy of a friend. 43. The ones too stout. 44. Clouds once beheld. 45. A prayer. 46. Oh stranger. 47. A bowl of ends. 48. Heaven\'s golden shores. 49. On averred shores. 50. The tribunal.

"Sandip Mitra\'s intense expressions bring forth the lives of people by chance effect and acute societal pressures left by themselves to navigate between the way of life desired by themselves and the strict social traditions. He uses many voices to express his ideas and to speak unnamed protagonists. He deals with delicate themes and controversial topics maintaining a fine balance between staunch reality with delicate exactitude and poetic beauty. A certain air of loneliness haunts the reader through the unputdownable volume and evidently serves the poet\'s purpose to bring forth the plight of those who for trivialities of a few minds are left to lead lives worst than death at times nudging deep into the past of crime to justify his act of just sympathy and compassion. Set in a world of his own that he tactfully builds, these sublimely understated poems, spiced with strong emotional expressions, extreme involvement, subtle detailing, using metaphoric frills, speak with universal eloquence to anyone who has felt the yearnings for exile or the emotional confusion of the outsider." (jacket)