Sandstone Corridor

Sandstone Corridor is a delightful collection of poems. It is a journey to the poetic world of love and beauty, virtue and flaw, trials and tribulations. Here is a poet who can write with startling clarity about his physical surrounding and the world of sensation. Gopal Lahiri, being an earth scientist, travels a lot in remote areas and long years in isolation-studying in hills-his quest, enthusiasm and intense interest in nature have left an indelible impression in his poems. His major philosophical enquiry as evident in his first poem collection- Flicker of Hope (published from Lulu) -revolves around the problems of personal identity, love, alienation and sufferings. The beautiful poems with striking images and lovely metaphors are laid out in a novel way designed to help each reader to savor each one to the full. Each poem of this collection is original, refreshing and stands on its own merit. His controlled and delightful poems are meant to be heard, to be felt and to be visualized.