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Hemant Divate’s poetry is born of suffocation, with the word and the world. It comes from a pain borne with patience. Like his previous collections, his latest book, Paranoia (originally in Marathi, published under the same name), conveys a disquiet that goes beyond ennui, fear and angst. Paranoia is a state of being, in a collective sphere where existence hangs by a thread. When a riot breaks out, things go helter-skelter.
To be honest I don’t know what to say about how one writes poetry. I was always interested in ‘verse’ — music, songs, quotes and stories. So there are numerous influences along the way to when one actually started writing a poem up to the point when this poetry was published. I think poetry is about the truth of a moment. It is ‘feeling’ and this means responding to life with your whole being.
Hemant Divate writes of his world, of his everyday embedded-ment in it. A prisoner of his own reality, he is aware of his incarceration. Words are his sharpened spoons and knotted bed-sheets of possible escape, but instead they record his failures to do so, time after time. Each recourse in his product laden, consumerist mall-fantasies are additional scratches on his prison walls where he marks his days measured out in poetry.
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