The Sound Of Poems podcast

Kamala Das - Words

11.2.2023

The Sound Of Poems

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Kamala Das is one of the most prominent Indian poet and writer, and her poem "Words" describes, beautifully, the juxtaposition of words and silence, and even though words seldom help the way we want them to, still they keep coming, as if from a somewhere far within, a place we can't fathom.

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