SHREYA CHATTERJEE has earned wide appreciation for her recently published book Musings of a Wanderer (Power Publishers, Kolkata, Reprint 2011). In her very first poem she says that she feels ‘an empty space’ when no letter is ascribed to her name. It is ‘a world within a world’ that she depicts. Her keen sensibility is reflected in the lines, “I know for sure/you will hold my hand”. Even when Shreya walks on the lost roads, she believes that the roads beckon her ‘to walk over them’. Her observation is sympathetic in the poem ‘She has no words’ where a girl’s desire to vent her feelings is expressed. Her imagination reaches a mystic height, almost Frostian when she says: “I am home …. /Away from my home”.
Nostalgia and waiting are the themes of many of her poems.
The personal tone merges in the universal when we hear her musing on the ‘dawn of a new world’. She infuses life into the street lights that ‘speak in whispers’. The roads are imagined as frenzied and she is out on these roads to write her story ‘of wars won and lost’.
In this book of a blogger various shades are delineated only to create the impression that life is nothing but a meandering river or a path. The glories of life never fade if you meet people: “For I write, what I see/And speak of Things I feel.”
Shreya is a poet by profession, but she is more so at will. Based in Kolkata, she gathered her pearls of experiences in Bihar. She was associated with poemhunter.com. The book contains as much as 85 poems, which show that she knows her words. The cover design by Aritra Chatterjee, a software engineer, is excellent and professionally done. The book is priceless, but yet has a price tag of Rs. 100.
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