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Lopamudra Banerjee's new book Woman and her Muse: Poetry & Memoir is a deeply passionate and poignant tapestry of poetic prose pieces that intersperse intense subjective poems that blend and bind the past and present, by skillfully weaving together geographies, gender and genres. Lopamudra does not look back in anger but rather gestures towards her life of divided loyalties, by being the cultural bridge between the home and the world. In her poems, memories are rejuvenated through the exhilarating touch of words, sometimes extended as tributes towards inspirational icons in the world of aesthetics and performative arts. So along with poetic renderings of her responses to sequences in the epic Mahabharata, the poetry of Maya Angelou, paintings, sights and sounds, theunique “Cinema Musings” section of her latest book registers her homage to outstanding personalities from Satyajit Ray to Gulzar among others, who have all interpreted the world in their varying classic styles and remarkably inspired her.