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Vijaya's Cherish is the result of a deeply intimate, symbolic self-exploration of the lessons of the past, challenges of the present and unlimited potential of the future. Beginning with the "Abecedarian Poem," the poetic subject outlines a trajectory of growing awareness of the self in a complex and contradictory world, quite literally from A to Z. Poems such as "From ruins to rise" and "The 'Shi... More

Vijaya's Cherish is the result of a deeply intimate, symbolic self-exploration of the lessons of the past, challenges of the present and unlimited potential of the future. Beginning with the "Abecedarian Poem," the poetic subject outlines a trajectory of growing awareness of the self in a complex and contradictory world, quite literally from A to Z. Poems such as "From ruins to rise" and "The 'Shining' House" seek to give concrete realization to moments of doubt or confusion; indeed, the whole of the work stands as a testament to the passage from childhood innocence to the reality which we may face either as victims or with active imagination. This gives the verse "not a fairy tale ... but for real" (in "My first love") that much more significance.

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