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The flayed city / Hari Alluri.
LIBRA PS3601.L48 F53 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alluri, Hari, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Poetry.
- Immigrants.
- City dwellers--Poetry.
- City dwellers.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 122 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kaya Press, [[2017]
- Summary:
- Hari Alluri has been described by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as a writer who "carries a new, quiet brush of multi-currents, of multi-worlds to paint this holographic life-scape." In The Flayed City, he offers an intimate look into the lives of city dwellers and immigrants in a collection of charged poems that sweep together "an archipelago song" scored by memory and landscape, history and mythology, desire and loss. Driven by what is residual--displacement, family, violent yet delicate masculinity, undervalued yet imperative work--Alluri's lines quiver with the poet's distinctive rendering of praise and lament steeped with "gravity and blood" where "the smell of ants being born surrounds us" and "city lights form constellations // invented to symbolize war." The Flayed City offers a powerful glimpse into a secondary world whose cities, cultural histories and trajectories are hybrids or "immigrated" versions of this one.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781885030474
- 1885030479
- OCLC:
- 961003870
- Publisher Number:
- 99972076812
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