Publisher's Synopsis
Following up on THE RETURN OF THE MAGNIFICENT NINNY AND OTHER POEMS, Raj Dronamraju returns with his second poetry book, SOLIDARITY WITH THE FLESH EATING MOSAIC & OTHER POEMS - with 60 new works that demonstrate a broadening and deepening of perspective. More than thinking out loud, here we find dignity at odds with circumstance-where too many live a "wax fruit life," Raj's poetry opens un-romanticized "raw reality" that can't be explained "away with pie charts" even for the "window shopper" in the "marketplace of ideas" or those who would "practice self-doubt in a daily workout routine." Dronamraju time and again coins original turns of phrase, as he thinks through the inner mind out into a world of intimate and estranged relationships, personal soul searching and questioned social consumerism-a scarred life in an imperfect world that is not monumentalized, but rather examined with a profound passion.
