Review: It's a beautiful poetry/philosophy book with lexicon (loved that)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2013
The Sojourn by Rupansh Gupta asks the eternal questions "Why are we born?" and "What matters the most?" Even during my lifetime these questions have become more complicated as the world is becoming smaller.The interesting part of Rupansh Gupta's book is that he offers us poems to stimulate our own thoughts. While there is certainly no shortage on philosophical elaborations and answers to the named questions, Gupta's poems make room for our own thoughts, in a way typical philosophy books just don't do. He also presents thoughts I have never pondered, for instance:IN THE MOUNTAINS"The shapes not so symmetricalProving beauty can even be in asymmetrical...""Indeed", I thought while reading this. "I should have thought about that at some point"; after all I grew up in Austria, famous for its beautiful mountains.Rupansh Gupta also presents old wisdom in new form; I liked his lines:"The results of past are irrelevant, [how true, whether we like it or not]Consider every second as well spent, [don't we like this assurance?]There is a long way to go,Just move... "The Sojourn by Rupansh Gupta is a book very worth reading because its structure allows the reader to adapt perspectives when re-reading it.Additionally, The Sojourn has a feature I have never seen in any poetry book: a Lexicon, listing the words, which matter!What a great idea, Rupansh! Loved that!-- Gisela Hausmann, author and blogger