Stuck in Paradise: Emotions Recollected in Turmoil

By Aarif Afzal

Poetry is rarely born in tranquility. Stuck in Paradise: Emotions Recollected in Turmoil shatters the Wordsworthian ideal, capturing a visceral "Non-Wordsworthian" overflow in the heat of the storm. Utilizing Blakean "deceptive simplicity," these poems provide a disciplined architecture for profound truths. From a child's possessive love to the "stick of reason" in age, it maps the soul's geography with surgical precision. Authored by a NET-JRF/SET/GATE scholar, it is for the fish circling the same shell while dreaming of the surface-refusing to muddy the waters to escape. Discover the "beautiful standstill" where truth reveals itself only when the world stops turning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9375274357
• ISBN13: 9789375274353
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Bookleaf Publishing
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"