After by Vivek Narayanan (Book Review)

🖋 Don't get confused between this and the famous After Wattpad book series. This is a poetry book written by Vivek Narayanan.

🖋 This book by Vivek mostly contains poems inspired by Valmiki's Ramayana. It just doesn't have that. It also has many poems full of incalculable emotions, pain, and many other feelings from historical events. 

🖋 The language of the poems, the writing, the design, and the pages vividly illustrated are just amazing work. Yes, in a few of the poems it would be hard to understand what was happening if you didn't read the info about the type of the poems. The places, the things, the people, everyone here has a poem of their own.

🖋 This is definitely not for a beginner. You should read a few poetry books before going to this one.

🖋 In a work that warrants comparison with Christopher Logue’s and Alice Oswald’s reshapings of Homer and Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, the author Narayanan allows the ancient voice of the poem to engage with modern experience, initiating a transformative conversation across time. 

🖋 The author has mostly used English in the book, but Sanskrit has also been used, but you wouldn't have a problem there as English of those words or lines is also written with them.

🖋 Overall, from the point of view of a poetry book, this was a great work. The research, the words, the author has filled the lines with great emotions.