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VOLUME 6 NUMBER 1 JUNE 2007 (11th
Issue)
An
International Literary Journal
Edited
by: Dr. Santosh Kumar Binding: Paperback (pp: 600
with a separate section of authors bio) ISSN: 0972-6004 Availability:
In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher:
Cyberwit.net, India Pub. Date: June 2007 Cover Art: © Ira Joel Haber
This
issue features most remarkable Artwork by international
artists, Poems, Short Stories, Literary Criticism, Interview,
Book Review and more. There is a separate section for Haiku,
the smallest literary form that originated in
Japan
in the 17th century. Due to difference in the
syllable structure of English language, 5-7-5 format should
not be mandatory.
The
authors whose writings appear in Taj are selected because of
their heightened sensibilities as well as their fuller
understanding of the postmodern period. The poems and short
stories included in this issue reveal the author's response
towards our unfortunate times dominated by the murderous and
plundering forces. The innocent are knocked to pieces, and
strangled. But these unpoetic-seeming things can be material
for poetry. The ugliness, squalor and horror of the modern age
was a new kind of material for Joyce's
Ulysses and Eliot's The
Waste Land. Stephen Spender aptly says in his World
Within World that the poet "instead of having to set
himself apart from his time, could create out of an acceptance
of it." For example, several poets selected in this
volume have adapted their urban sensibility, with undertones
of tedium and fugitive sense-impressions mingled with ironic
commentary.
I
felt extreme suffering when a gunman killed 33 people in
Virginia
Tech
University
(April 16, 2007). The whole world was horrified by the school
shootouts. Our beloved earth is groaning under these
unbelievable peaks of violence:
"Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare / Rides upon
sleep" (Yeats). I mourn with the parents of the deceased
students. May god rest all the souls in peace.
My
heart is full of gratitude to all the authors whose help and
kindness greatly inspire me in this work of editing and
selecting. I look forward to receiving your cooperation in the
future issues of Taj and thank you again.
SANTOSH KUMAR
Editor
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