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For an Hour, We Lived from Flowers: And Other Poems
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"The incomparable beauty of friendship, nature and faith comes to brilliant life in Owi Nandi’s For An Hour, We Lived From Flowers. His lyrical poetry expresses the uniqueness of all God’s creatures in nature, showcasing a strong spiritual element full of human emotion. Nandi’s philosophical depth is rarely found in other works, and will touch all who experience his words."
Product Description
“You see, penetrate, and say the most simple things clearly, physically, directly in a bold and new way, such that it subtends the interior goods as if they were borne on hands.
I suspect from your foreign languages, I have read how many you speak, that this picture-words, word-pictures have evolved as it were biologically in your linguistic memory.
Amazing: true lyrics by a scientist.
"Thoughts and lyric texts for between whiles", you name the book. It is a "between whiles" by itself, between magic spell and banality, between seeing, knowing and suffering and dream.
I never read a lyric manuscript without cessation, this time I could not help.
My congratulations on your book.”
—Silja Walter, Swiss author, nun
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4524482 in Books
- Published on: 2005-04-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 118 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Owi Nandi is a half-Swiss, half-Indian author who believes that poetry is a unique ability to express feelings. He is convinced that poems should still have a place in the modern world and would like to contribute his own work to the continuation of this art. His book includes topics such as friendship, nature, love, and philosophy. Owi has also published in German with convincing success.
Customer Reviews
Powerful, hypnotic prose
Scientist, romantic, and dreamer, Owi Nandi has set forth an impressive collection of prose in this collection. The beauty, meaning, and vivid imagery expressed in the original German text has been admirably preserved in this English edition. The words land in the mind of the reader with soft explosions, and have that power found in the best poetry, the power to change the mental landscape.
Nature lovers will be drawn into the lush descriptions of flowers, trees, and landscapes, which are reminiscent of those depicted in paintings by Georgia O'Keefe or Monet. Throughout the collection, the poems express with startling accuracy the varying natures and phases of relationships, either between people and nature, or between individuals. The blinding white of innocence, vibrant reds and yellows of passion and/or anger, the depthless black of sadness or loss, radiate from the poems. At the end, the reader is left, metaphorically, with a rainbow in his or her mind.
