Freshness of the Child

Salman Akhtar

ISBN 10 : 1935093061 ISBN 13 : 9781935093060

Editeur : Arseya Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

The poems contained in this book are replete with imagery and metaphors that are simultaneously cosmopolitan, somatically-anchored, and utterly surreal. One moment the author mentions an ancient harp from Athens, the orange cacophony of streets in New Delhi, hundred proof Jamaican rum, and a merchant from Basra who owns seven camels and thirty goats. The next minute he evokes six-handed Hindu gods, the real distinction between silver and mercury, and a frog's sense of his own identity. The author introduces us to an Italian meat supplier who has slept with seventy two (or more) women, a Pakistani adulteress who specializes in Cuban cuisine, and an American Jew who blushes at the sight of pregnant women. Deeply connected to the corporeal and the mundane and yet transcending those very boundaries, the author's imagination takes us on a thrilling sojourn of sensual delight, of sharp wit, but above all, of delicious surprise about the human condition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arseya Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935093061
• ISBN 13: 9781935093060
• Reliure: Broschiert
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 70
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible