Backcover Description: Do you love music? Do you want the notes to reverberate in your heart through poetry? If so, then this is the right place for you. You will marvel at the authors power to rain chords that will strike your heart and imbibe emotions, despite the restrictions imposed by meter and rhyme.
Book Review/s to share: Koyel Mitra, the author of this superb and wide-ranging collection of poems, makes two statements that are really questions. "Nowadays free verse is reigning supreme in the world of poetry...Writing poetry in a specific form has become almost outdated." Can a modern author bridge the seemingly un-bridgeable gap between modernity and classicism? It is true that current masters of the genre such as Mary Oliver, with Thirst and Dream Work are extremely popular, and rightly so. Her prose is near-perfect and her themes are deep and eternal. Ms. Mitra probes the possibilities of these themes, as well as a host of others, in Once Upon a Rhyme. Witness Santa losing his way in aa, bb, cc, couplet and be charmed, or shiver with man, trees, and animals in the harshness of winter in Double Ethere. Deep yearning in Monotetra, eternal love in Quatern. Name it, Ms. Mitra explores and discovers caves of beauty worthy of any meter. Once Upon a Rhyme is a worthy piece of brilliance, a diamond to be added to every collection of serious and perfectly crafted poetry. Ten stars on the scale of five.
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