Kala Aur Boodha Chand

Art and the Old Moon is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning work of poetry by the renowned poet Sumitranandan Pant. It contains poems written in 1958. In both style and subject matter, it holds a special place among the poets later works. The influences of Aurobindo philosophy and Indian psychology, which had been visible in his work for some time, have fully matured in this collection. The poet has assimilated all these influences and described a transcendental world of emotions here, which is entirely his own, self-realized. The poet has attempted to express these poems through philosophical and metaphysical symbols, while penetrating the layers of the conscious and subconscious. Pant has been using free verse since his very beginning, but the true nature of meter-breaking began with Vaani and its full development is achieved in Art and the Old Moon. In these poems, the poet takes off the anklets of rhyme, breaks down words to infuse them with new meaning, and thus empowers his tools of expression to reveal unknown movement. Indeed, this is an indispensable work for scholars of Pants conscious poetry.