Publisher's Synopsis
After trying his hands at narrative poetry that sees its culmination in his magnum opus "Footnotes of History: A Tale of the Mahabharata", a book of 50 haiku poems that register multifarious sensations comes straight from the depths of the heart and intellect of the author again-the self-same qualities that marked the mellifluous "September Songs" and "A Violent Spring and Other Poems" . The poet writes freely and even sub-consciously on themes as diverse as religion, mythology, nature, relations and whatever that can be adroitly dealt in words. A must have for haiku lovers and those interested in micro-poetry that still makes sense and is not lost into the desert of non-comprehension and mere epigrammatic blather. Praise for the Book 1.Arnab Chatterjee's Penitent Night revels in mellow ostranenie and surprises. Innovated to delineate the present era, the haiku speak of existential crises, Doomsday, environmental decay, as also of an elevated state of the psyche. The flow of imagery, language and intellection is neoteric and avant-garde and the reader is most fascinated by the author's technical and imaginative prowess. Both arcadian and urban, and with subtly hinted eroticisms, the haikus in the volume achieve in expanding the scope of this traditional form. - Inam Hussain Mullick Award winning poet and author of Roses for the Madhouse & Winter's Electric Architecture. 2. Arnab Chatterjee's modern poetry confronts the daily milieu with a mystifying sap. The effortless images like a painting dog, swaying banana leaves, and a weeping Sisyphus, make the book an austere read. - Madhu Raghavendra, Poet and founder of Poetry Couture.3."Haikus are sages/that will parade in the nude;/till a Picasso takes over."Arnab Chatterjee's Penitent Night possess verses that witness temporal liquidations of days as hours march on, deliberating on minutiae, domestic corners, desert vicinities, and refugee islands with sensitive superimposition, making you pause: an exercise in wondering, nostalgic pondering. -Rochelle Potkar Author, Paper Asylum.
