When God is a Traveller
Publication details: United Kingdom; Bloodaxe Books Ltd; 20 Nov 2014Description: 64 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9781780371160
- 821.92
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Poetry and Drama | 821.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC003194 | |||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Poetry and Drama | 821.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | For Sale | PKLC008605 |
These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity, disruption and stillness - all the roadblocks and rewards on the long dangerous route to recovering what it is to be alive and human. Wandering, digging, falling, coming to terms with unsettlement and uncertainty, finiteness and fallibility, exploring intersections between the sacred and the sensual, searching for ways to step in and out of stories, cycles and frames - these are some of the recurrent themes. These poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megapolis, myth, the politics of culture and gender, and the persistent trope of the existential journey (which intensifies in the new poems). Arundhathi Subramaniam's previous book from Bloodaxe, Where I Live: Selected Poems (2009), drew on her first two books published in India plus a whole new collection. When God is a Traveller is her fourth collection of poetry.
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