Ivory Gleam
Dr Priya Dolma Tamang
“Love for self grows when you wean off regret,
to cut the cords that nourish neglect,
from your naval of fed fears.”
Author: Dr Priya Dolma Tamang
Publisher: Virgin Leaf Books
Rating: 4.5/5
Summary:
A deluge of poetry and prose, ambiguously honouring the essence of existence from birth unto death, life and loss, self and society, romantic love and pensive longing, melancholy of regret to gratitude in healing, and the struggles of and strength in femininity. A potpourri of musings assembled with a hint of practical spirituality, to be savoured passably as an oracle of hearts to the many answers, whose questions or minds are yet to comprehend.
Review:
Poetry is always a difficult part of literature in terms of understanding and perception. Every person has their own take on everyday things. It’s become a general trend on social media to post two cliché lines and term it as poetry or to be more precise ‘Instapoetry’. Long verses, rhyming schemes and metaphorical imagery all seem to be a thing of the past. Most of what we see online today can be classified as Free Verse.
Ivory Gleam takes down memory lane in its own way. The book is a compilation of poetry and prose, an amalgamation of thoughts on life and death, love and loss, regret and healing, society and feminism. It is split into three chapters of learning, longing and loving. Each chapter is a journey traversing a different road to the ultimate destination of self-reflection.
The author, Dr Priya Dolma Tamang, is a medical graduate from the Himalayan terrain of Sikkim. She believes that artistic expression is therapeutic and she finds her healing in words. She is active on social media and one can find her work on Instagram.
Ivory Gleam explores so many different genres between its pages that you feel a blend of emotions rising with each chapter. The pieces expose us to different shades of human nature and then some. The book does not give us much to complain about except for the use of too many complex and long sentences. The fragmenting of sentences sometimes confuses the reader and some pieces needed to be read twice to fully grasp the meaning.
Every piece in the book is filled with the most beautiful metaphors that bring the author’s imagery right in front of your eyes while reading. However, one can say that there are one too many metaphors within the 236 pages this book is. The language is simple and the vocabulary used suggests a well read pen behind the words.
Some pieces to look out for are On Self-Love, On Sadness, On My Way To You and After Death.
A must read for poetry lovers that love a new take on classical poetry.
This book is available on Amazon.
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