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An
International Literary Journal
VOLUME 3 NUMBER
1 JUNE 2004
Edited
by:
Dr.
Santosh Kumar
Binding: Paperback
(pp: 344 Including a separate section of authors bio)
ISSN:
0972-6004 $25
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Publisher:
Cyberwit.net, Allahabad,
India
Pub. Date: June 2004
Condition: New
Description: Welcome to Taj! Taj Mahal Review, pp. 344 (June 2004) features Short Stories, Poems by international authors, Literary Criticism, Reflections, Book review and Author Index in a separate section. The poems included in this well-crafted and beautiful journal reveal that Poetry has not lost its significance as a cultural force in our postmodern world. This wonderful journal contains short stories, which are unique and excellent, and revive 'the almost lost art' of short-story writing. Several short stories depict the soul in conflict with itself, human isolation, alienation, love and hate, man-woman relationship, family conflict, the individual's struggle against the contemporary social order, spiritual quest. The social range and scope of these stories seems to be the greatest achievement of the artists. Taj Mahal Review by its continuous service to the creative community is helping Poetry Thrive in World Today. A Journal of original creative writing. It is full of aesthetic consciousness, psychic sensitivity, wonder, astonishing fiction that makes life bearable.
From
The Editor
Welcome
to issue number five of Taj Mahal Review, June
2004! This nonprofit journal contains Poems, Short
stories, Reflections, Literary Criticism, Book
Review, and Authors' Bios. I trust this issue
will help Poetry thrive in world today, and
"open the door which leads to the soul" (Henry
Miller, 'Sunday after the War', 1944) .The
poems included are spontaneous, and never a
servile imitation. The exuberance of several
authors will surely dazzle the readers. We also
find passion for experiment in literary form.
My
heart is full of gratitude towards all
selected artists of this issue. Above all,
their valuable cooperation and help is a source of
inspiration to continue venturing upon the
hazardous business of publishing creative writing
.Throughout this task of publication I notice the
great divide between the poet and the oppressive,
commercial powers with no interest in encouraging
poetry . The following wise words of St. Francis
of Assisi inspire me:
O
Divine Master,
Grant
that I may not so much seek
To
be consoled as to console,
To
be understood as to understand,
To
be loved as to love,
For
it is in giving that we receive,
It
is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And
it is in dying that we are born
To
eternal life.
Taj
Mahal Review is indebted to June 2004 subscribers,
donors and supporters.
Cordially,
SANTOSH KUMAR
LITERARY
CRITICISM
Bill
Sherman
WORDSWORTH
AND SYLVIA PLATH
Bill
Sherman 'was taken aback' by the statement
that Wordsworth's 'healing power' is better
than Sylvia Plath, who idolized suicide
('Wordsworth's Healing Power', TMR, Dec,
2003). This letter is a genuine interpretation of
Plath's poetry.
It
is incorrect to say that Sylvia Plath idolized
suicide in her poetry."healing power" can
take many forms. Note the poem by Lyn Lifshin
(enc.) on Plath's death. Further, some in fact
would regard Wordsworth's overblown rhetoric in Westminster
Bridge as country -bimpkinish, a
hick-from-the-sticks visiting the big city; and
his late poems wrapped in Toryism, a sellout from
the time he and Coleridge wandered about the Lake
Country smoking and drinking laudanum and creating
English Romanticism. But Wordsworth criticism
aside, and the greatness of some poems like The
Ruined Cottage acknowledged, Sylvia Plath, in Ariel,
the final and posthumous volume, gives us a vision
from the abyss, from in the abyss.
It
is true that unlike Denise Levertov, say, or
Shreela Ray, Plath never found the language
sustenance enough. Her poems are full of
unrealized desire. She is e. e. cummings of the
Night who began to fully realize the implications
of having "married a man with a Mein Kampf look
\ And a love of the rack and the screw" (Daddy).The
terrible alienation she suffered in England
plunged her deeper into the psyche, the heart of
her womanhood exposed to the reader not as
Confession (as in , for example, Anne Sexton) but
burning, as Jeanned'Arc in the song by Leonard
Cohen. It is superficial to say that she idolized
suicide,. Her last poems are cries for help,
unheeded. "From the bottom of the pool, fixed
stars \ Govern a life." (Words)
Bill
Sherman
Margate,
N J, USA
27
March, 2004
Thou
shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;
Thou
shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
Because
the first is crazed beyond all hope,
The
second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy
--Byron
(1788-1824), Don Juan, canto I
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