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Rapture: Endings of Space and Time |
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by Dr. Santosh Kumar |
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The modern turbulence and murderous frenzy will surely result in wild agony, if "messengers / of love and compassion / no longer dare to / speak out". In his poems about Nepal, Powell’s mystical energies or wavebands are inspired by the Buddhist Mantra: "OM VAJRAPAANI HUUM .. OM VAJRAPAANI HUUM ..". Powell actualizes the transformed soul of goodness faithfully… And finally we give birth to the God within .. Powell knows very well like Blake that "the ruins of time build mansions in eternity." His search of utopia takes him to Nepal for mystical exercises of oriental sects. Such poems transport us as well as the poet to a dreamworld of "vision and hallucination". They exercise a secret magnetism on our innermost soul extracting from Buddhism its most harmonious and subtle Mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum". "Buddha Trance" is a vivid comment on the Life in Nepal where the poet finds "The exoticism of spirituality /Blended with indigenous capitalism". Powell’s Rapture: endings of space and time also includes most lively, vivid photographs from Nepal, and critical essays on the poetry of Jan Oskar Hansen, Albert Russo and Fernando Rodriguez. Rapture: endings of space and time makes it apparent that Powell has been and is a major writer of this age. Adam Donaldson Powell Rapture: endings of space and time (Published by Cyberwit.net, India, 2007, pp. 86 $ 15 Paperback, ISBN: 978-81-8253-082-9) |
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