Poet Yokpangden brings 'Song of Kewafung'

Poet Shravan Mukarung, Vimala Tumkheva, critics Ashok Thapa, Gurung Sushant and Vinaybhushan Dutt, president of Maya Publications, released the book at the event held at Shilpi Theatre. Speaking about the

book, Mukarung discussed that the poet Yokpangden excelled in the use of locality. "There is no place to doubt the poet as there are very few weaknesses in the first collection," he said. He said that the state should be able to accept their cases from communities that have been oppressed for years. But he asked the reviewers to evaluate whether or not all of them are connected to the identity. Poet Tumkheva said that the poems in 'Kewafung's Song' gave an organic taste. "At the end of every poem, there is a punching line," she said.

reviewer Thapa worried that even though there are social and political movements in the country, the journey of identity movement is always fading. 'Poets and writers are still writing, but what has not reached and they still have to be entangled in this issue?' He asked, 'Now should we start a debate to advance the issue of cultural and identity from a different angle?' Another speaker, Gurung, said that the poetry includes cultural thinking, from the suffering of foreigners to environmental thinking. "There is no fluffiness of words in the collection, poems are written for the sake of poetry," he said. He said that when the state tries to build language and national identity by keeping a caste community at the center, anger and dissatisfaction arise in other communities and that also comes out in writing. Journalist Fanindra Sangam, who facilitated the

program, said that the poems of Yokpangden, who lives in Miklajung, Morang, can be found in the poems of local colors, images and the smell of the soil there. Poet Yokpangden said that his feelings, passions and anger are expressed in poetry. "Those who live in Sinhdarbar and Baluwatar, and walk around waving the national flag in their cars, have defamed the country," he said. Painter Ghimire Yuvraj recited two poems from the collection at the

event. The book was published by Maya Publications.