Prose Poems by Pitambar Naik

Mask, The Reminiscence of a Gigabyte, Pang

Prose poems by Pitambar Naik

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Pitambar Naik grew up in Odisha in India. He’s an award-winning poet and the author of The Anatomy of Solitude, (Hawakal Publishers). His work is forthcoming in The Indian Quarterly and has appeared across 10 countries in The World Belongs To Us (Anthology): HarperCollins India, Eunoia Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine, Vayavya, Literary Orphans, Joao Roque Literary Journal, Occulum, Formercactus, among others.

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These poems were written nearly a year ago. The geography has a sea of challenges and that look so gigantic every single day. The scenario of course is alarming, the time is intimidating. The storyteller here has a panicking moment to live a life and think of a living. The day-to-day struggles while countering the state apparatuses multiply and get overburdened. Here in the poems the protagonist is in a sorry state as well as in a gloomy vicissitude to breathe at ease. Life is just a drama with hysteria of disagreements and maybe a camouflage of mask. In the same line all the poems depict the story of the same ilk. As to paint a plot of analysis of life the storyteller emphasizes to tame a pain like a smooth answer; so that the loved ones would be quite ready to meet an asterisk (uncertainties). The time indeed leaves no way out but to reciprocate frustration and agony in the context, some lumps of trauma chest-thump in a quilt day and night. Apparently that is the only option of life for many in this part of the world.   

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