Objects of Affection by Krishna Udayasankar

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I did not realise it is a collection of poems when i started reading it. i read it as i would short stories. being not really a literary person, i was surprised to realise that they were a collection of poems. it is something new to me and i enjoyed reading it.

at first, i read the ‘stories’ or poems, on its own until i realised when read together, or weaved in the chapters, it could be a whole story of two individuals, i mean, it is! it has to be.
i like surprises like this!

it challenges the reader to imagine as an inanimate, observing as a third ‘person’ of two lives. it is refreshing. it is intimate. i am not a fan of reading (having, sadly, found out along the way) about betrayal or extra marital affairs, i guess it tries to humanise the emotions involved. but i am sure if the chapters are read on its own, it could give glimpses of different meanings and experiences.




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it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, it certainly is not for me (storyline-wise) but i appreciate the refreshing notion of reading poems as though they were short stories and the surprise that if you put a mindset of reading the chapters together, it almost draws you in to read about the two individuals into one whole story, like a novel on its own. and with a vague ending, as all short stories are.