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Quatrains in Quarantine
Quatrains in Quarantine
Darkness, despair, and death. These were recurrent emotions that framed our lives during the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago. But, this dark benighted period, with its lockdown rituals and collective trauma, also rekindled spiritual thirst and seeking that translated into poetry and art. Quarantine became a place of healing, creative rejuvenation, and poetic germination. Manish Chand’s poems in Quatrains in Quarantine transmute the pandemic-era suffering and despair into luminous poems and celebrate the transfiguring power of imagination to remake our self and fragmented world.
Written at the height of the pandemic when the killer virus was raging in all its ferocity, Chand’s poems try to make sense of the daily carnage of death and loss when “mornings begin with mourning/No end to this grieving.” Deeply philosophical, spiritual, and witty by turns, “Quatrains” pose the perennial questions of why we suffer, why we love and what we live for. The poems in this collection also explore the nature of language, writing as an act of resistance and what it means to dwell poetically on the earth, fully alive in this place called time.
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ISBN : 978-93-47435-26-3
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Darkness, despair, and death. These were recurrent emotions that framed our lives during the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago. But, this dark benighted period, with its lockdown rituals and collective trauma, also rekindled spiritual thirst and seeking that translated into poetry and art. Quarantine became a place of healing, creative rejuvenation, and poetic germination. Manish Chand’s poems in Quatrains in Quarantine transmute the pandemic-era suffering and despair into luminous poems and celebrate the transfiguring power of imagination to remake our self and fragmented world.
Written at the height of the pandemic when the killer virus was raging in all its ferocity, Chand’s poems try to make sense of the daily carnage of death and loss when “mornings begin with mourning/No end to this grieving.” Deeply philosophical, spiritual, and witty by turns, “Quatrains” pose the perennial questions of why we suffer, why we love and what we live for. The poems in this collection also explore the nature of language, writing as an act of resistance and what it means to dwell poetically on the earth, fully alive in this place called time.
Author/Editor
Manish Chand
Manish Chand is an author, editor, poet, and seeker—not necessarily in that order. An international relations expert, Chand dons many hats. He is Founder-CEO, Centre for Global India Insights, a think tank focused on decoding international affairs and charting India’s ascent as a global power. He is Editor-in-Chief, India and the World, and organises conferences on global issues. An alumnus of St Stephen’s College, Delhi, he has authored and edited many books, including “India’s G20 Legacy: Shaping a New World Order,” “Journeys Across Continents,” and “Two Billion Dreams.” Oscillating between worlds and words, he has travelled to more than eighty countries across hemispheres, collecting epiphanies on the way.
Book Details |
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| Author/Editor | Manish Chand |
| ISBN | 978-93-47435-26-3 |
| Subject | Literature |
| Number of Pages | 96 |
| Weight | 250 |
| Publisher | Har-Anand Publications Pvt Ltd |
| Publication Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Binding | Hardback |
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