saranyan bee Biography

Hi,

I came to learn English literature by default. Dont ask me questions, these things happen.

But the works of great many that dominated the curriculum of the seventies, travelled with me in an unknown manner.

Later on, when a a good friend egged me to write, my facny for Myth, Form and Rhyme gave way to Freshness, Simplicity and penchant for repuditaing the popular perceptions in which we fool ourselves.

Modern poetry fascinates me, what is modern? Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver inspire me a geat deal in a specific manner. The simplicity of their writings left me sort of unnerved each time, every time, whenever I read again and again.

I differ with them in as much as that I would like to lay less emphasis on the 'place' and 'immediacy'.

I thought in general, poems are supposed to have Universal and Eternal presence and language to serve only as much as the ink.

What a poem invokes once to some group of people at some point of time, ought to invoke similar emotions to all the persons at all points of time, even if translated.

I like to draw for inferance, the simple lines of a Goanese poet (Forgive me I forget his name, this one is translated from a Indian language Konkanese) ....

It roughly translates (he tells God of death who has come to take him away) ....

'leave me tonight, O Lord,
leave me tonight
because tonight my mother has made me fish
with cocoanut rice and cahsewnut brew,
leave me tonight
Let me savour the dish,
sleep well and be with you tommorow'

Have I said enough?