Nominated for the
2022 Vermont
Book Award
Buffy Aakaash
has poems published by Sweety Cat Press, the Raven’s Perch, Main Street Rag, Dissonance Magazine, and numerous others. His poem, “The Beauty Before Us” was given the 2022 Marion Gleason Memorial Award by the Poetry Society of Vermont.
Also by Buffy Aakaash...
Over the years poetry has come to enthusiastically embrace its most common approach, known as “free verse.” Poets enjoy “free verse” because quite simply it frees them of old models of formal poetry which require them to follow rules. Honestly, who wants to follow rules?
Oxford describes an aria as “a long accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio.” The Fierce Aria that Maxima Kahn has written clearly adheres to this definition.
I begin one of my poems called "Morsels" with, "In short," a single line, as would befit a poem about small things. The poem is about small things in life that have big meaning.
Testimonials
In Buffy Aakaash’s Untangling the Knots, we learn such essential skills as “How to Start a Fire,” “How to Undress,” and even “How to Pet a Cat.” But we are given surprise after surprise, as we discover vivid metaphors for deeper life lessons.
Maxima Kahn
Author of Fierce Aria
Here we are asked to “enter the entanglement” as Aakaash lays bare a poet's motivating purpose through a series of “How To” poems that process and warn, as well as celebrate and rejoice, sometimes with a cat to pet, or a puppy to walk, or a goat to milk. These poems live life to the fullest; they "behold beauty / and follow the call…”
Samantha Kolber
Author of Birth of a Daughter
Untangling The Knots is a uniquely potent collection of sagacity that weaves ostensibly mundane pursuits into elegant tapestries of instruction that congeal and calm the complexities of being human in our natural world. With silky precision, the poems reach softly into our hearts and ask us to look deeply and with sanctified intention into the raw ingredients of our losses.
Standing Feather
Author of Glowing Pink
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