Rajiv
Khandelwal’s latest collection 21st
Century Love Poems- Love is Lot of Work as the title suggests is the book
of love poems that carries myriad hues and fragrance of multiple types. To
quote Reginald Massay’s words, “The verses of Rajiv Khandelwal speak to today’s
technocrats in a language that they will comprehend and to which they will
relate mostly readily”. The collection contains poems of fresh imagery, symbols
and figures that appeal directly to the “new generation of the new world.”
Besides, editor of the book Bhupindar Parihar has tried to define and justify
the title and work of the poet by
terming it as “an attempt to reconcile with spaciousness of the post-modernist
world” and as an attempt to “Break the word and free the thought /Break the
thought and free the thing.’ (Editor’s Preface, iii)
Rajiv Khandelwal
is not just a poet with ample promise but he is a multi dimensional
personality. He is a self-employed manufacturer and a bachelor of Electric
Engineering whose interest transcends scientific and commercial boundaries of
material world and lead him to the world of art, literature and cinema even. He
also co-produced a documentary film Visit
India, Discover Agra that testifies his personal love that requires a lot
of work too.
These hundred
poems of love have an appeal to the lovers of new generations as the simplicity
of diction and the usage of familiar terms mirror the tackling of love in an
upto date manner. In the first love poem of the collection one can mark out
poet’s post-moderns thoughts:
You sitting
Unaffected
Like Beatrice
Portinari
And I,
Standing
Like Dante in
church. (1-2)
Another title
poem ‘Love is A lot of Work’ is a fine example of common modern modes exhibited
in opening verses when we read:
It is
irrelevant
That devouring
Medically
prohibited
Chocolate
pastry
Gave me intense
pleasure. (3)
He continues
that it is “Immaterial that HBO / Beamed Romantic comedies Like ‘Runaway Brides’
or ‘the daily news channels/ spoke about politicians’ insensitivity…’ but for a
lover the thing that torments most is another:
What is of
dying importance
Is why
She did not
communicate
Today. (4)
Most of the
poems carry romantic grandiosity of lovers, fragrance and grandeur of flowers-
like hearts of romantics, lyrical elegiac and even silent appeal of longing
hearts. These hundred poems are monument of poetic heart of modern poet. The
poems are touching to mind and heart of a lover so the present collection will
not dishearten the lover of poetry readers and for a serious lover of poetry,
Rajiv’s collection will surely appear as a kaleidoscope of modern modes and
images that will consequently establish that love is for all ages, time and
place.
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