Author: Marilyn Noronha
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 75
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8177645285
Description
The poignancy of remembered happiness, the struggle to keep weariness at bay and go on living when a loved one is dead, these are among Marilyn Noronha’s themes in her first book Different Faces. A feisty humour is part of the strategy of survival. At other times, there is the sense of involvement in the wider world of suffering and violent death.
Different Faces is an encouraging first book by a poet who has worked long and hard at her craft. Some of the short, elegiac poems are particularly memorable because grief is so economically handled.
Marilyn Noronha is part of the Poetry Circle in Mumbai and has read her work to appreciative audiences. Readers, even those wary of poetry, will find the poems not just accessible but relevant to their lives.
REVIEWS
A feisty humour is part of the strategy of survival. Some of the short, elegiac poems are particularly memorable because grief is so economically handled. Readers, even those wary of poetry, will find the poems not just accessible but relevant to their lives.
-Eunice de Souza
The poems are extremely readable; their innate rhythms and simple, direct observations draw the reader and listener through layers of complex emotions, so that each reading strikes a different chord.
-Aloo Heerjibehedin
Teacher of drama and theatre person
Contents
STAYING ALIVE
Different Faces
Dumbfounded
Our Marriage
Fir Tome
I Never Missed A Single Thing
There Is One Comfort
Final Gift
The Gulmohur
And You Too?
Staying Alive
The Dance Is Over
Lullaby
Weaving A Fabric
The Eye Of The Storm
Instant Lover
Like Peter Pan
I Envy Beautiful People
Warning
Full Circle
Burning Question
Juliet Turns Thirty
Woman To Woman
Eventually
Being Woman
Jambul Tree
We Carry The Seed
Gazing At Michelangelo’s Pieta
My Fat Aunt
Mirror, Mirror On The Shelf
IT WILL BE DIFFERENT
Worms
Asking Questions
From The Newspapers-Nutty Notices
Stranger Than Fiction
Good Heaven!
Cockroach
Don’t Make Waves
Present Painting
Legacy
Wanted: A Saviour
It Will Be Different
He Difference
Lemmings