Isbn: 9789386050083 - the sand libraries of timbuktu: poems (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 88 pages. 5.06x0.18x7.81 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Rohinton Daruwala's poems unfold like a baramasa, an almanac of seasons and sensations, exquisite torments and explosions of delight. He essays a sensuous portraiture of place, invoking torrential monsoons, arid summers, railway bridges at night, libraries in deserts. [He] spells out a frank eroticism in the textures and flavours of fruit.at the same time, [he] is entangled in the hypermodern present. He gathers traces of the loved one from residues both material and digital. [He] maps the city, not only through the portraiture of human protagonists, but also through the micro-ecologies inhabited by butterflies and sparrows. In Daruwala's handling, the poem can be an oblique parable, a brief lamp of wisdom in the wind of distraction: light as breath, yet as essential.'Ranjit Hoskote.…