Irregularly Irregular: Further reflections on life, living, and relationships for a reflective audience

In this new collection of 260 poems created over 13 years, Cariappa Annaiah continues his reflections on life, living, and relationships as he explores body and mind.
Excerpts from the Introduction: The focus of my poetry is relationships-personal, professional, and social. Why? Personal and professional happiness depends on the state of health of my relationship with myself, and then with others.
The poems are hyper-local. By counting from one and improving my ability to manage myself emotionally and physically, and then influencing others around me, I can make change one individual at a time, starting with myself. I keep my bar low! From my perspective, the only way to initiate long-term change is to work locally and walk the talk.
Why Irregularly Irregular? Two reasons: - Other than reflecting reality, my poetry and art cannot be typecast.- Reality is unpredictable. Unlike fantasy, which is a captive of the mind and thusly malleable, ductile, and predictable since we are in charge, reality is our captor; we are at its mercy; it shapes us like putty and grudgingly yields to our hopes and aspirations.
And, why the warning for a reflective audience?Again, reflecting reality, and different from my previous collections, these poems explore all nooks and crannies of the mind and body. From my perspective, refusing to identify and address elephants in the room and denying that sex is a physiological urge is the root of a lot of personal and social ills.

Author: Cariappa Annaiah
Publisher: Inwardstep Publications
Published: 11/15/2024
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780984546237

About the Author
Annaiah, Cariappa: - Cariappa Annaiah is a self-taught, eclectic poet and artist, and mentor based in Greater New Orleans. A physician by training and an anatomic pathologist by specialization, he worked as a scientist in India for eight years and in Massachusetts for 22 years before relocating south ten years ago. He holds the earned designation of Copley artist at the Copley Society of Art in Boston, the oldest nonprofit art association in America. He is a member of The New England Poetry Club, founded by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken in 1915. A published poet and award-winning artist, his artwork is in private collections in the USA and abroad.View his unique artwork at www.cariappa.net.

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