Jaspreet Kalra

Saudade, a collection of poems takes you on a journey of finding poetry in each miniscule part of life, the most commonplace of things envisioned with a deeper sight make saudade so relatable for the reader as all the protagonists are characters such that the reader can very well put himself in their place. The intricacy of emotions like pain, anguish, longing, nostalgia at different bandwidths is the highlight of this collection. Saudade mixes storytelling and poetry as the poet chooses to tell short instances of lives that are spent independent of each other yet have similar feelings, expressed through a variety of musical and literary effects. Some of these stories are heart wrenching, some give you a candid joy, but each one leaves you with a subtle smile on the face, and a slow wind of melancholy in the soul.