Escape Artist - Couverture souple

Swami, Sridala

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9382277986 ISBN 13 : 9789382277989

Editeur : Aleph Book Company, 2014

Synopsis

Sridala Swamis Escape Artist offers a diviners eloquent testimony to survival in a world of dissolving certitudes, precarious relationships, transcontinental mobility and political cataclysm. Transiting between the vivid latitudes of delight and the austere geometries of mortality, these poems map the dilemmas of the bodied self. Poised, subtle, luminous, Swamis poetry clothes the ephemera of everyday life in an intimate tangibility and secures them against the insistent attrition's of history and nature. The finely gauged frame is Swamis chosen instrument. Through it, she effects surprising juxtapositions of myth and contemporary experience, investigates whether the finality of extinction is preferable to the self-parody of repetition, revisits Paul Celans cryptic notations, Odilon Redons enigmatic images, Abbas Kiarostamis deceptively quotidian cinema and pays homage to that re-discoverer of lost myths, Giorgos Seferis. At the core of Escape Artist is a visceral awareness of what words can do - they can induce temporary insanity, voice inaudible stories and remind us that the measure of love is not loss but residue'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sridala Swami is the author of the poetry collection A Reluctant Survivor. She is a poet, fiction writer and children s writer. She has written four books for children. Her creative and critical works has been published in the South Asian Review, and has been anthologized in The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. She has also been a film editor and teacher, and has even curated a poetry program called the 'Poetry Mohalla . She is also preparing a collection of interviews with contemporary Indian poets.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aleph Book Company
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9382277986
• ISBN 13: 9789382277989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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• Personne responsable: non disponible