50 More Poems from AurovilleSome
years ago, Vikas (Alan Vickers), one of the pioneer Aurovilians,
brought out a slim anthology of Auroville poetry called 50 poems from
Auroville. He has now compiled a second collection, the proceeds of
which, as before, will go towards land purchase in Auroville.Auroville,
as Vikas notes in his introduction, is “more than a place”. It is
“an inner search for truth and beauty and for its manifestation in
the world in a truly new consciousness.” Consequently, some of the
poets featured here have never lived in Auroville, or even been
associated with it.Yet
all of them in one way or another evoke something of the essence of
the experience. It is in the poetry of matter as in Anandi’s hymn
to Matrimandir Grey perfume stains our hands/A strong
sweetness,/The future grows,/And in a dovetailing of suns/A ray is
caughtin
shedding the old while seeking the new, as in Valentina Claeys’s I
have been asked to write myself into a wordless leaf/expanding to the...
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