The Little Book to be Eaten (with a grain of salt)

About the Book

About the Author

Kruma Kedar christened Wingrove Payne was born in Irish town Basseterre St. Kitts 1953, attended Basseterre Boys School and Senior School.  He Immigrated to USVI at 16 completing high school at St. Joseph High Freedom city Fredericksted St Croix.  He started writing poems at that time when he wrote about his first thanksgiving in St. Croix for an English assignment. Kruma has been writing poetry ever since.  He attended the College of the Virgin Islands for three years pursuing a liberal arts curriculum. Sources of funding for his college education dried up in 1974, so he dropped out and did another year part time subsequently lost interest.   

He did his first painting in St. Kitts at the age of 8 at his grandma’s house, stealing paints from his uncle and placing them in soda bottle caps, painting on broken panes of glass which he’d cut into desired shape with a glass cutter, selling them to men in the neighborhood for 50 cents to a dollar at barber shops and rum shops. He sketched, drew and painted in college doing posters of popular bands and political events.  When he dropped out of college he continued painting and pursued being a professional artist, when he had his first child in 1974 at the age of 21.  From 77 to 89 he was a nationally registered EMT, in order to better support his family and, at the price of his painting.  

He has drawn on all his life’s influences and experiences and from his inner sense and self-study to write this book of poems primarily for his male children because he didn’t raise his two girls. But the advice and information about self and how to influence the self for good, for truth and for beauty freedom and democracy/reciprocity anyone possessing a personal “I” can use