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Blissfully Eva - "Kindling fancies into poesy". (Books Reviews).
"Blissfully." By Eva Ranaweexa - 32 poems, Hitech Prints, 2000
It was John Clare who wrote of the poet "Kindling fancies into poesy" in his beautiful poem. "To the rural Muse." Thank God Eva Ranaweera did not have to wait 150 years to have these, her newest collection, published. Poor John Clare had to do just that. Blissfully, too, Eva has again shown a positively youthful delight in poetry, much like what Masefield admitted to when he said that delight in poetry is strongest in youth.
Eva Ranaweera is a woman of deep emotions. To truly know her work is to read her with eyes purged by the euphrasy of understanding. I feel, personally that there is no form of authorship in which the pains are so great. Admittedly, it is hard to sell verse" but Eva, with her mansions full of inspiration and her rooms full of a signal art of verse structure, has always earned praise, recognition and careful attention.
I have been, at times, forced to accept (pretty enough) the works of amateur versifiers people who demand publicity. No spirit touches of them and, God knows, they wouldn't know the slopes of Parnassus even if they slid down them on their adequate backsides. Eva is different. In "Blissfully" I find I can hardly keep pace with her stride. She certainly knows how to beat out her music, whether it is Singho's soldier son standing in line, tin plate in hand, for his ratio of army food, standing in line, to be a bloody gulp of terrorist food too. This is the sort of appropriate expression that Eva excels in. There is always that perfect felicity of phrase:
wounded rotting in the desert
awaiting hospital trip
fed on rise and sand
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