Leaving Fingerprints - Couverture souple

Dharker, Imtiaz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852248491 ISBN 13 : 9781852248499

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2009

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Hers is a strong, concerned, economical poetry, in which political activity, homesickness, urban violence, religious anomalies, are raised in an unobtrusive domestic setting, all the more effectively for their coolness of treatment. --Alan Ross, London Magazine

Here is no glib internationalism or modish multiculturalism... Displacement here no longer spells exile; it means an exhilarating sense of life at the interstices. There is an exultant celebration of a self that strips off layers of superfluous identity with grace and abandon, only to discover that it has not diminished, but grown larger, generous, more inclusive/ --Arundhathi Subramaniam, Poetry International

Her lucid and quiet, but strong, voice provides new insights into these troubled areas...living in a world, not just an adopted city, that is beset by terror, religious fundamentalism and the distrust/fear of the other. --Nilufer Bharucha, Wasifiri

Here is no glib internationalism or modish multiculturalism... Displacement here no longer spells exile; it means an exhilarating sense of life at the interstices. There is an exultant celebration of a self that strips off layers of superfluous identity with grace and abandon, only to discover that it has not diminished, but grown larger, generous, more inclusive/ --Arundhathi Subramaniam, Poetry International

Her lucid and quiet, but strong, voice provides new insights into these troubled areas...living in a world, not just an adopted city, that is beset by terror, religious fundamentalism and the distrust/fear of the other. --Nilufer Bharucha, Wasifiri

Here is no glib internationalism or modish multiculturalism... Displacement here no longer spells exile; it means an exhilarating sense of life at the interstices. There is an exultant celebration of a self that strips off layers of superfluous identity with grace and abandon, only to discover that it has not diminished, but grown larger, generous, more inclusive/ --Arundhathi Subramaniam, Poetry International

Her lucid and quiet, but strong, voice provides new insights into these troubled areas...living in a world, not just an adopted city, that is beset by terror, religious fundamentalism and the distrust/fear of the other. --Nilufer Bharucha, Wasifiri

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2014

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between Bombay and London. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings. Leaving Fingerprints is her fourth book of poems and drawings from Bloodaxe.

In these poems, the only thing that is never lost is the Bombay tiffin-box. All the other things which are missing or about to go missing speak to each other - a person, a place, a recipe, a language, a talisman. Whether or not they want to be identified or found, they still send each other messages, scattering a trail of clues, leaving fingerprints.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1852248491
• ISBN 13: 9781852248499
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Illustrateur: Dharker Imtiaz