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BEEHIVES: A COLLECTIOM OFJAY BASU’S PUBLISHED AND UBPUBLISHED POEMS presents a comprehensive range of his poetry across a pied landscape of the human experience of life. At a first glance it may seem a random assortment of themes, motifs and archetypes. A deeper delve will underscore a stream of thoughts and impressions that crisscrosses a sprawling terrain with ripples of rhythm and ruminations that Jay Basu as a distinctively sensitive soul in quest of love, light, peace and harmony in an upturned world. Poetry here is the articulation of deep introspection over almost all the facets of experiential reality that stir the soul of man in space-time continuum. It prods the reader to stake his/her perception in the deep text to the point of deconstruction, and look for a higher language – a language that leaves a lingering impress on his/her mind and realign his/her perception vis-a-vis the fragments of life as experienced across borders and barriers. Tonal variations and attitudinal shifts that orchestrate with metaphoric echoes and symbolic undertones, mark the poetry of Jay Basu as typically modernist. Yet at the heart of his poetry there is a palpable angst, the melancholy of an eternal romantic and shooting flickers of spirituality. Poems here are supposedly delightful read.