Book Description

SEEDS TO STANZAS - Poetry by Nina Kali

•  If you plant a seed and water it every day, an orchard may appear, an orchard of elliptical and carefully chosen words. This book of poetry  will offer you a wide range of scenarios and welcome you to be part of it. Seeds To Stangas offers short and sweet respites from the rigours of life. It seems the author is coming to terms with a forgotten life "outside of whatever," where "rocks fly past" and where "nature takes its  course - in terms of bullying." Seeds to Stanzas doesn't adhere to one specific theme; you are encouraged to embrace the randomness of life while taking you by the hand and embarking on a lyrical journey of healing. There is a conclusion as to why Kali writes, and on the opposition, she has the need to pull poetry down to the ground like a world that doesn't work. There is a sense of working through it and a grit, a fierce need to maintain hope. We are also brought closer to the good moments in life "amongst all this chaos." 
• Seeds to Stanzas is a dance of pronouns; the "you" is the careful reader, who is advised to look, not listen, at objects as words of what appears to be a traumatic affair. There are many objects to see in these poems, but they seem to be burning hot or in flight. Objectified as a poetic sequence, they have at the end, a stillness, a settled quality, just as a novel has a climax and closure. Kali shows how, what has failed in love can bring a rich and wonderful fruit, a novel "in three minutes."