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The stinking rose / Sujata Bhatt ; with illustrations by Rolf Wienbeck.
LIBRA PR9499.3.B4494 S7 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bhatt, Sujata, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Gujarati
- Physical Description:
- xi, 115 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 1995.
- Language Note:
- Chiefly English with some poems in Gujarati and English.
- Summary:
- The Stinking Rose is one of the names for a plant that arouses strong feelings: garlic. No one is neutral about it. Sujata Bhatt explores the various mythologies and the magical and practical aspects of garlic in a sequence of twenty-five parts, is also haunted by places, especially Vancouver Island (where the author lived and worked for six months), and by her native India. Europe is also present, a place of sometimes reluctant abode. There is a dialogue between new worlds and old, intensifying towards the end of the volume in a series of experimental poems, building on the experience of those celebrated earlier`bilingual' poems which bring Gujarati and English together.
- ISBN:
- 1857540484
- OCLC:
- 32196341
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