About this ebook
This author's poetry expresses a sensibility that is particularly common to our century: that of a lone soul, restless and yearning for death as the ultimate experience, yet also leaning with nostalgic romanticism toward life and its pleasures, both innocent and guilty.
The intractable guilt that has afflicted many of the poets and thinkers of the last several decades is very much a source of the inspiration for D. C. Anjaria's work. Unlike many contemporary poets, however, Anjaria perceives a living God, albeit one who always seems engaged with the author in an agon of classical dimensions.
It is when the heavens shake
That their dead dust falls
On the immense nonentity of the universe
And, in the same piece:
The creation at all, O Creator,
Was thy biggest mistake—
Suicidal, O God:
One of these days
Life will kill you.
Creation will go beyond you.
The thoughtful reader can only be stimulated and invigorated by the mind at work in From Existence to Life.
About the author
D. C. Anjaria was born in Bhuj, India, in 1946, into a culturally upper-class, but economically middle-class family. (The author was left fatherless at the age of six.) He wrote From Existence to Life when he was twenty-two, living at home, "far away from life itself," in his words.
Currently living between France and India, Mr. Anjaria continues to pursue his career in consulting, teaching, and writing, on management, men, and other matters. He is married and the father of a son born in 1982.
