Dr. Azam Gill reviews Dr Santosh Bakaya’s SUNSET IN A CUP, a collection of 78 poems that employs vivid imagery and insightful metaphors, exclusively for Different Truths.

The starburst of sophisticated sensory images in Dr Santosh Bakaya’s collection of seventy-eight poems, Sunset in a Cup, offers an epicurean feast of the visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile, uninhibitedly flirting with the senses. Emily Dickinson’s poem inspires the title, and Santosh Bakaya’s introductory prose is poetical. She retrieves and owns Dickinson’s imagery, elevating it to another dimension with laudable control over each thematic pearl, strung with passion. A collection of seventy-eight previously published poems, now consolidated in a single volume for justified impact and pleasure.

Emily Dickinson’s cup had sunset in it. Santosh’s cup runneth over into the saucer without an overflow on her refined embroidery.

Read the full article in Different Truths, Focus, published on 8 February 2025
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