BENEATH THE SKIN means for any poet, the process of searching deep inside the self for the sores as well as the reveries that keep bursting with pulses that ultimately have to find its way into a poem. That drive is perhaps the most forceful of all and as such becomes an indelible spirit with which the poet has to struggle in the greatest of disadvantage, in front of a mirror that does not project an exact duplicate of the “outer self”, but rather inverts the skin to reveal the “factual self”. Therefore, vulnerability becomes poetry; sort of a naked sorceress spinning emotions like the skin does and this is what this poetry book is all about.
