if you can slip out of your face – Vinay sharma

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In the pages, I hear Vinay’s voice, the timbre and modulation. It is an unforgettable tone. Offering the sense — or illusion — of a world that challenges accepted meanings. Unexpectedly, I hear a submerged conversation offstage you might say — since the poet is a director of plays. The ideas, statement, voices, and goals converge to form a studied repetition, a kind of chorus. I continue to encounter this rhythm as I watch the dynamics of each poem play their part. I discover the underlying structure. Facial expressions, tone of voice, hand gestures, body language rising through the black and white of the page — they’ve all converged, orchestrated created an effect that goes beyond the everyday, the effect that Vinay creates with his productions. This is a collection that has been years in the creation. Now the time has come for the curtain to rise and words to take centre stage and hold their audience spellbound. — Anjana Basu

Edgy and contemporarily centripetal, Vinay Sharma’s poetry whirls shards of experience and words into the refreshing kaleidoscopic vistas of Love. His voice expertly bandies itself between earnestness and irony. The impromptu feel one gets in some of the poems in If you can slip out of your face is the masterly hand moulding philosophical rumination into the urgency of a scrapbook notation, a response to stimuli. — Debasish Lahiri