"In his first book Reflective Musings, Vijay Joshi gives us voices and rhythms and truths from many shores: Mumbai, Turkey, Japan, Greece; the Veda, the museum, the hospice, the prison; from Dickinson to Dali to Grandpa to a battered wife. One senses a love of language for there is melody in his repetition of words and sounds; moreover, I share in his abiding respect for ideas as images juxtaposed with their subtext." -Dianne Feula, Published poet, retired teacher of English and creative writing. "Many of the poems in Vijay ...
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"In his first book Reflective Musings, Vijay Joshi gives us voices and rhythms and truths from many shores: Mumbai, Turkey, Japan, Greece; the Veda, the museum, the hospice, the prison; from Dickinson to Dali to Grandpa to a battered wife. One senses a love of language for there is melody in his repetition of words and sounds; moreover, I share in his abiding respect for ideas as images juxtaposed with their subtext." -Dianne Feula, Published poet, retired teacher of English and creative writing. "Many of the poems in Vijay Joshi's debut collection delight with their candor and purity of emotion; some are joyfully inventive. Vijay Joshi has the heart and soul of a poet." -Audrey Henderson, author of Airstream ""A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught."" -William Butler Yeats Vijay Joshi's writings are shaped by his early life in India and influenced by its ancient mystical past. His poems and essays appear regularly in several online blogs in London and in India. He says when an image or a word intrigues him, it consumes him as he explores it. It becomes a living organism and begins to have a conversation with him. Looking through the lenses of his mind's eyes, images begin to tumble presenting an infinite combinations of poetic ideas which created Reflective Musings.
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