Thought not chronologically arranged the poems in Sense and Silence cover a span of over thirty-five years, reshuffling the past and providing a composite view of R K Singh’s creativity as an Indian English poet, who is remarkable for having chosen his own uncommon path, combining the riches of tradition with scintillating modernity, mysticism, and eerie shadows. Brief, lyrical, and down-to-earth, the poet displays the power of plain words, scaring the puritans and taunting the purists. He speaks our for love, sensuality, and meaning of life.
The book also brings together for the first time several new poems and /or not yet published old ones, besides fresh haiku, tanka, and experimental haiku and tanka sequences not published in book form before.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ram Krishna Singh
Ram Krishan Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, is university professor whose main fields of interest consist of Indian English for Specific Purposes, especially for Science and technology. he has authored over 150 academic articles, 160 book reviews, and 31 books, including eleven collections of poems, namely, my Silence (1985), Memories Unmemoried (1988), Music Must Sound (1990), Flight of Phoenix (1990), Two Poets: R.K. Singh (I Do Not Question) Ujjal Singh Bahri (The Grammar of My Life) (1994), My Silence and Other Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1996), Stone Drop Pebble (a haiku collection, jointly with Catherine Mair and patricia Prime, (1999), Cover to cover: A Collection of Poems (Jointly with Ujjal Singh bahri, 2002), Poem in Terris (a trilogy collection with Myriam Pierri and Giocanni Campisi, 2003), and The River Returns (a collection of tanka and haiku, 2006). His poems have been anthologized in over 140 publications and translated into French, Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Chinese, Japanese, Slovene, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Serbian, Croatian, Esperanto, kannada, Tamil, and Bangla. A book of criticism on his poetry, new Indian English Poetry: an Alternative Voice: R.K. Singh (ed. I. K. Sharma), appeared in 2004. His bibliography appears in some 30 publications in the UK, USA, India and elsewhere. R.K. Singh is professor of English & head Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
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