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This is What Happened

Salman Akhtar

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Tautly stretched over the chasm between idolization and iconoclasm, restraint and audacity, and the man-animal distinction, the poems contained in this book evoke scintillating images and garden- fresh metaphors.

Tautly stretched over the chasm between idolization and iconoclasm, restraint and audacity, and the man-animal distinction, the poems contained in this book evoke scintillating images and garden- fresh metaphors.

Parrots that live on Mount Everest, tigers who swallow poets, fishless oceans, ill-tempered camels, and sparrows of memory coexist in its pages with pancakes of platitudes, the Great Mountain of Fear, a starved Bedouin who feels enormous guilt for being hungry, the change in the direction of toes with age, and the one-eyed blacksmith of time. Never has magical surrealism cloaked existential truths better in poetry.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
76
Publisher:
Aeon Books Ltd
ISBN:
9781912573707
Published Date:
26/5/2022
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm
Category:
Poetry

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Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781912573707

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