Mute Melodies

by Manu Mangattu

Overview

“…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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153771236
Publisher:	Manu Mangattu
Publication date:	10/06/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	207 KB

About the Author

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 [e-mail], [phone].