Shefali Banerji

Half-Baked Crescendos Shefali Banerji

Half-Baked Crescendos is a collection of poems written typically during a depressive phase of loss, despair, and subsequent recovery. The poems have an ominous and foreboding theme, with endings typically climactic and open to various interpretations, hence the title "Half Baked Crescendos". Each poem was conceived during a particular melancholic episode that followed various onslaught of emotions. . There is a prevailing philosophical theme of nothingness and beyond in each poem. There is pain, suffering, disillusionment, despair dominant in all poems and prose. The poet tries to attempt different poetic forms ranging from pantoums to ghazal while dealing with different subjects.