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    Mute Melodies
    Mute Melodies
    Mute Melodies
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    Mute Melodies

    By Manu Mangattu

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    “...Mute Melodies comprises the ideal kind of poetry: inspired, imaginative, and intelligent. It is a veritable document of humanity inviting one and all to relish the challenge to empathise, and rejoice at the chance to harmonise. The poetry in the volume deals with themes as varied as love and longing, memories and modernity, religion and/against reason.
    Inspiration and the Muses literally serve as the muse of the collection. Manu considers the muse as being an active partner in the creation of poetry, envisioning the poet and the poetic muse as joint creators. Woven into these celebrations or lamentations of muse are allusions from Greek and Indian mythology and literature, leaving behind an impression of beauty in diversity.
    Overall, the poems in the collection are not just uplifting, but also interesting. There is earnestness at work here; the lines are sincere and natural, words emerging directly from the soul. And, as for you the reader, dip into these pages, and enter a world, where words, wondrous and weighty, swirl around and drench you, and feel as rejuvenated as you are under a waterfall on a sweltering summer noon....”
    Dr Krishna KBS
    Chief Editor, Spring Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherManu Mangattu
    Release dateOct 6, 2016
    ISBN9781370811182
    Mute Melodies
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    Manu Mangattu

    Manu Mangattu is an English Professor, poet, editor, lyricist, film-critic, research consultant and publishing expert. He has published 9 books, 79 international research publications, 97 academic papers and 20 edited volumes with reputed publishers like Routledge, Harper-Collins, Harvard University Press and Penguin. He serves as chief editor/editor for various international journals and is on the syllabus revision and approval committees of many reputed universities. During his stint as an Assistant Professor of English, he had done UGC funded research projects and a SWAYAM-MOOC course on Romantic Literature. He completed a UGC funded research project on “Sachin Tendulkar as an Aesthetic Experience" in 2017. A poet at heart who would live and die in Art, he writes poetry in English and several Indian languages. A polyglot with a passion for music and film, he finds delight in doing translations from Chinese, Persian and Sanskrit. The Chinese Poetry Conglomerate acknowledged his contributions in taking Chinese Poetry to the Western world by naming him "Comrade to Poetry China" in 2016. A visiting faculty at various universities and a quintessential bohemian-vagabond, he conducts poetry readings, workshops and lectures. He won the prestigious “Most read and recommended researcher award” during the last 3 years (2018, 2019 and 2020) with close to ten thousand recommendations garnered through his career. After an apprenticeship in Shakespeare under Dr Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, Cambridge, he currently offers part-time guidance to 27 research scholars (2 awarded) from India, Iran, Australia, KSA, Indonesia and Djibouti), and mentors about 1300 post-graduates/ guest lecturers/ research scholars preparing for NTA-NET examination. An ambidextrous ambivert blessed with extreme colour blindness, he also plies his trade in the film and publishing industry. He can be contacted at manumangattu@gmail.com, +91-9496322323.

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      Mute Melodies - Manu Mangattu

      Mute Melodies

      Manu Mangattu

      Mute Melodies

      (English Poetry Anthology)

      Manu Mangattu

      First Published: September 2016

      Electronic Edition Published and Distributed by

      Smashwords, Inc.

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      Copyright 2016 Manu Mangattu

      Thank you for downloading this book. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes without prior permission from the author. If you enjoyed this book, encourage your friends to purchase their own copy from their favourite authorized retailer. Thank you for your support.

      Cover Design

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      Dedicated to

      Dr AJ and Dr SJ

      They taught, hence I write

      Table of Contents

      Foreword: Unmuting Manu’s Mute Melodies- Dr Krishna KBS

      List of Poems

      1. My Darling Star

      2. The Maze

      3. The Museum

      4. No Parking

      5. Déjà vu

      6. Engraved

      7. Hypocriticism

      8. The Ruptured Dream

      9. The Successful Worm

      10. The Weary Way

      11. Catharsis

      12. Rage

      13. The Muted Melody

      14. Once in Bliss

      15. The Love Knot

      16. The Mulberry Dream

      17. His Bride

      18. His Wife

      19. Please Don’t End up a Tear Drop

      20. Spark from Heaven

      21. The Sweet Sorrow

      22. To Little Elizabeth, on her Christening

      23. Uncanny Recollections

      24. Raison D’etre

      25. I am Apollo, I am Dionysus

      About the Author

      Other Titles by Manu Mangattu

      Foreword

      Unmuting Manu’s Mute Melodies

      Why Read Poetry?

      I ask this question not idly, but because anyone who opens this book should be able to answer this.

      But would you answer? Could you?

      Probably you might say you read poetry because you want to.

      But ‘want’ (variously defined as a lacuna that you are forced to fill or a craving for something so far unattained) seems so mundane. Is that why we read poetry?: A desire born out of a need to fulfil, perhaps an obligation — as you are required to read/study it for some practical purpose or other? Or is it something else altogether?: Something, perhaps, more basic and much more demanding than necessity or desire or obligation?

      This might seem to be a classic case of putting the cart before the horse, and you

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