Gopal Parajuli’s persistent engagement with death as a theme of poetry has become his poetic trademark. Death, in reference to his poetry, should not be understood merely as end of life. It is a constant antithesis of the presence of life; it is a nemesis to the light of life. Death, as his artistic polemics claim, is much weaker than commitment to live and let others live. It is beatable with the bludgeon of life force.
This is where a reader arrives after a serious recourse through Poet Parajuli’s latest collection of poems: The End of Death. Published by Amazon.com, the anthology has eighty-four poems, each of which is an independent poem when read in isolation, but a member in a thematic sequence, when read as a part of a larger sequential scheme of thematically connected poems. Named ‘cycle poems’, these individual yet connected poems are yet another bead in the sequence of relentless experimentation poet Parajuli is famous for.
The End of Death is an encapsulated discourse on the metaphysical combat between life and death.
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