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This collection of poetry - ONE ZERO EIGHT - is a commentary on the events, places and personalities that influenced and left a lasting impression on the poet.
This collection is an allegory - it uses the metaphysical and quantum physical aspects of the numbers 108. The interpretation is - One for Ego, and creation; Zero for the void of death, and regeneration, and Eight for Infinity.
This collection is a travelogue - it writes about the different places the poet has traveled through Africa, India, Europe and North America.
This collection ¡s autobiographical and intensely personal, albeit with heavy doses of poetic license and imagination.
This collection Is a series of paintings, where words of varied hues slide along the brush strokes of experience to create a vibrant and expansive mosaic.
Poetry, though, Is always a work In progress, as its interpretation Is like a shimmering mirage - enigmatic, mercurial, and ever-changing. The search for meaning is the adventure!
A propos de l'auteur
Dr. Parvin D. Syal was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya where he studied Medicine. After further training in England, he migrated to California where he still practices his profession. While in Kenya, he published poetry ¡n the literary magazines, Nexus and Busara. He was also a contributor to Poems from East Africa edited by David Rubadiri, and David Cook. He is author of Streams of Consciousness, and co-author, with Harshi Syal Gill, of a play on the life of Buddha, God Minus. His second anthology of poetry, One Zero Eight is in publication. In California, Syal wrote extensively for the ethnic press, in addition to playing a leadership role in community and political activism. He has written for the stage, and film and has acted in both these media of entertainment. Syal lives in Chatsworth, California with his family.
