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Dearest Seshen!
An epic, a long poem (Which Edgar Allen Poe called a contradiction in terms). but
who am I to say No to a poem which chooses to assume the strangest of garbs
in one of the finest of minds.
So, so be it. Let me accept your OEUVRE as an epic.
But why why call it modern? it is timeless.
Why call it Indian? It is spaceless.
SRI SRI
( Indian poet)
It was not only Tagore and Gandhi who crossed the frontiers of their country
and reached the wider world and achieved universality...... Seshendra's epic poem
'My country My People' is an evidence..... some important critics have compared this epic
poem with T.S.Eliot's WASTELAND and 'L' ASCENSION' by St. John Perse. Personally
I would compare the pain and anguish of the poet with one of Loutremont in his lyric
'Mald Aurore'. The difference is that Seshendra's protest is not made in the void. Seshendra walks
firmly on his soil, one can find in the poet a wild whirlwind which attains incredible oratorial heights,
creating terrific images... whirling within him is the idea of strength of life that is fighting the dark powers
which want to take away its freedom and bread.... at times we observe in the poem
a biblical and Prophetic tone that attracts us.
NIKHEPHOROS VRETAKKOS(Greet Poet)
