Review on A Fistful Of Twilight by Ajithan G Kurup

Today, Advicesbooks presents a new review about a poetry book written by a sensitive and very talented Indian author, Ajithan G Kurup. This book is titled A Fistful Of Twilight and is an amazing collection of 46 poems focused to explore several sides of life. As all poetry does, even the one of Ajithan G Kurup is characterized by an enigmatic flow of words, but unlike other poets, Kurup does something more: he explores the inner world by seeking what is hidden inside of it.

The poetry of Ajithan G Kurup, in fact, doesn’t’ stop only to what we see on the surface of our life, but enters into the depth of soul. In A Fistful Of Twiligh, Kurup looks at several landscapes and environments, where nature, pain, death and life meet without never to know themselves really. Above all when Kurup describes the meaning of love, of hurts and other sides coming from the human nature, the verses turn into a delicious sound of excellent skill, by getting to touch an unimaginable level of writing.

A Fistful Of Twilight is written in Indian and English. Naturally, we have read only the English version of the book, which is also enriched with pictures, aphorisms and illustrations describing each of the poems of Kurup. After an enigmatic beginning, A Fistful Of Twilight becomes a great masterpiece of verses. Surely, a reader has to love poetry very much to read this incredible flow of words, but Kurup proved he can also capture this reader.

Every poem is, in fact, able to scratch his soul and pierce his heart. This just happened to us when we read the book. Kurup has always been an unquiet artist, a men capable to refuse the horrible compromises of this life and criticize the descend of the Western World. For Kurup, corruption and moral degradation shouldn’t exist, but unfortunately, they exist and seem the steady recipe of our world, a world that Kurup looks at, rightfully, with disgust. The word “Disgust” is also the title of one poem of A Fistful Of Twilight.

Thanks to his extreme sensitivity, Kurup also remembers the sad destiny of the Liberian people, in a poem titled “Liberia, where I have never been…”. There are no other words to explain the overwhelming allure of this poetry book. At this point, we can just suggest you to read the foreword before the poems and later the afterword, where the entire personality of Ajithan G Kurup is unveiled to readers. A Fistful Of Twilight is published by Insight Publica and costs five dollars. As usual, we want also to greet our readers with a poetry of the book that, according to us, it is the one which shows the hardest criticism against the modern world:

do you mark that?
in these times of the plague
that strikes with neither pustules
nor bubons, a quiet festering easefulness…
in these times of the pestilence
when ambition and shoddy selfhoods
walk desolate landscapes in search of witches,
or mingle in softly lit broking booths
where capital is laundered and selves sloughed
with unclean loins… it perhaps was
always thus since we left our animalhood
behind and assumed blessings never sanctified
in spirit or flesh…
touch my fingers and feel the cold
of the stench, the centuries of puss-frothing
abundance of the human…
the stench no hell can clean,
no heaven redeem…
in these times of hubris, where every
thumb flaunts machines it controls…
this flourish, this great grasp, this ascent
of pinnacles unforeseen… this going beyond without
a bridge! the laughter from the cauldron rings loud…
you’ll ruin everything acting startled like this,
go to. go to. you have known what you should not… (By Ajithan G Kurup)

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