Acknowledging Loss

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Amarendra’s Poems mix memories with haunting words and etch superb pictures of love and despair, waiting and melancholia. – Graciela Aroaoz, Poet and president, Argentina Writers Association Khatua’s Acknowledging Loss epitomizes the dynamic lifetime of a poet/bureaucrat who has now delved deeper into the forest of silence to create poems of inconceivable heights, a castle of cravings inside the forest of his lonely bones…A splendid feat of imagination.” – Yuyutsu Sharma, Himalayan Poet & Author of Annapurna Poems & A Blizzard in my New York Poems Agony of losing in love, seeking definition of eternal waiting and defining depths of human relationship in well- crafted imagery – Amarendra’s Poem resembles the familiar tradition imposed by Neruda’s tradition’. – Juany Rojas, Poet, Chile Vivid Portrayal of love and longing, exile and waiting. – Jorge Paolantonio, Poet & Novelist, Argentina In Amarendra’s magical précis of words, corralling disparate emotions into the concentrated elixir of poetry, he offers us a rich tapestry of the colors of life’s desires, some muted, others vibrant. He takes us along on his rollercoaster of restlessly twisting and stretching through the unfathomable waves of love and loss – remembered, misremembered, relived, reconstructed. A timely comfort as we collectively acknowledge loss. – Sharon Lowen, major international performing artist, columnist, writer and art historian Poetry of lost relations and savage longing. – Aleyda Rojas, Poet, Ecuador There are very few writers (are there?) who can express so accurately my own feelings better than myself. The masks we wear are torn apart by his images, for they are true, intense, inescapable and therefore liberating. His words throw a light over our darkest shadows and they remind us of a we cannot live without poetry. An exquisite writer, an impeccable professional, a very dear friend. He is the eternal poet. – Mira Tevsic, eminent musician, journalist, poet and tran