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ORDINARILY WRITTEN POEMS: BOOK I: THE LEARNING (A Collection of 70 Translated Assamese Poems) BY PRADYUT PAWAN GOGOI Where the soul of Assam meets the universal language of the human spirit. In this ordinarily, and automatically written poems' extraordinary collection, Pradyut Pawan Gogoi performs a double act of translation: carrying the vibrant, earthy essence of Assamese verse into English, and then translating the quiet moments of lifea ploughman's wait for rain, the geometry of dawn, the scent of first rain on parched earth-into profound, shimmering poetry. This is not merely a book to be read; it is a world to be entered. The poems are arranged in a sweeping arc across six realms: from the rooted stillness of ""The Quiet Earth"" to the intimate confessions of ""The Heart's Almanac""; from the philosophical depths of ""The Mind's Unfolding"" to the fierce struggles of ""The Unquiet Forge."" You will journey through the surreal landscapes of ""A Map of the Strange"" and finally drift along ""A River of Time."" But the journey does not end with the words. The paperback edition is a sacred dialogue between two artists. Illustrator Ophelia Demetropoulou has woven a second layer of magic into this tapestry. Her artworks are not mere decorations; they are visual poems. They translate the emotional core of each section into a parallel language of form and color: a vibrant, glowing root for ""The Quiet Earth,"" an intricate celestial geometry for ""The Heart's Almanac,"" and a map of abstract connections for ""The Mind's Unfolding."" To hold this book is to hold a complete universe. For the readers of Mary Oliver's reverence for nature, the philosophical depth of T.S. Eliot, and the cultural specificity of Ocean Vuong, this collection is a discovery. It is for anyone who has ever felt that the most ordinary moments are, in truth, the most extraordinary. Open these pages. Let the words and images pull you into a world both intimately familiar and breathtakingly new. Discover why the ordinary is forever waiting to be written, and forever worthy of being read.

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