Biman Roy’s “Navigating the Quartz Forest” shows how a father’s tender love speaks to his daughter through a book
Navigating the Quartz Forest is an inspiring book, a collection of poems that unveils the quiet yet sweet love language of a father to his daughter.
Most often than not, fathers are known to be silent in manifesting their love toward their children. They frequently have different subtle ways of expressing their care and love, which may lead children to believe that fathers are cold and uncaring.
Oftentimes, a father’s love dwells in the sea of silence. Caring does not always mean to be loud and obvious; it may also appear in the face of the subtle, quiet, and mundane whispers of sacrifices and prayers. What is saddening is that sometimes a father’s love is only realized once it is too late, even worse, not at all because most people have known one name of how love should be shown, forgetting that it may have different unknown names, voices, and faces.
Biman Roy has been writing poetry for beyond thirty years and has been broadly published. His writing has been selected for the Best of the Net and Pushcart award. Biman Roy is the writer of one chapbook of exposition works, Of Moon and Washing Machine, and two other verse chapbooks, Dinosaur Hour and Navigating the Quartz Forest. He is a psychiatrist by calling and fills in as a specialist in a hospital in New York and lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
The book is enlivened by his teen little girl’s enigmatic pieces written by hand notes, Biman Roy needed to make an assortment of poems that envisioned the universe of which he just saw lined fragments.
Everyone has been there. Teenage years. However, when you are a parent investigating that failed to remember the universe of show and power, you see this basic period in something else entirely far off the light. What is more, the shaft Roy gleams on his girl’s life is one of compassion and interest. He works language like a draftsman, sorting out a day-to-day existence from a touch of dirt, a chipped tooth, a bone shard.
Each fanciful verse in Biman Roy’s Navigating the Quartz Forest is charmingly combined with a little transcribed note hurriedly written down on blue-lined journal paper – artifacts from his girl’s life outside the family home. “All through the evening, we keep talking nonessentials, / tiptoeing around secret tulips”, he says. These notes, like pieces of caught discussions eliminated from their regular territories, become the glass-like seeds of new poems.
In Navigating the Quartz Forest, Roy’s unconventional poems become a shimmering accolade from a dad to his cherished little girl.
The book gives the feeling as if the writer was the archaeologist. He absolutely caused the readers to feel like they were not too far off with him at the archaeological site. He provided his works and photos of his little girl’s transcribed notes, and the readers assisted him with organizing them into attachments and getting over the last pieces of residue with a couple of rounds of line-by-line study and proofreading.
Shoulder-to-shoulder with one another, the poems go about as interpreters for these fairly cryptic messages from an obscure universe of teen tattle and mainstream society references. People may nearly fail to remember how shrewd and judicious youngsters can be. Biman Roy reminds the reader of a broad creative mind, brilliant shading, and paternal delicacy.
Find out how the words and spaces between the words in every poem speak about the love of a father to his daughter.