In this new offering from Aj. Dagga Tolar, the poet locates the journey of matter to mind as the beginning of the poem, insisting that the poet on the road of life cannot become without a Search for the Self.
Is life not a road unto itself for the gathering of the meaning of life even unto death? Can we bring ourselves to begin to know death when life remains largely yet not half explored and so many things unknown, so say the Chinese poet Confucius. It is why poetry is an art of life and for life.
The poem is not an art engaged to lock self in a safe haven, free from the reach of the crazy world of crazy lords and the tyranny of mirrors and images of the dead past of “Self”, outlawing others and their “Selfs” from being. Rather it is a journey in search of the essence and elements of life, and the purpose of the self of life in one’s hand through the chronicles of the dead poets’ society to behold other journeys of the self into the full embrace of life and experiences as the sole purpose for the gathering of the meaning of words.
The themes explored in this collection will make it out to be a collector’s item for all poets and all who seek to penetrate life’s meaning and essence.