Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua – many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt’s many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal and the allegorical, certainties are undone in an open-ended quest. A Chinese cook ignores a predatory snake, Gregor Samsa’s sister proposes a different sort of metamorphosis, a woman hears her daughter’s voice in birdsong – and the poppies in translation mutate according to the languages and histories they inhabit, ultimately persisting in a space beyond language. At times, language itself is injured by history: Bhatt reimagines the haunted undertow of post-war German as experienced by Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. Meanwhile, the poppies are ever-present, with their black souls in the wind.
Sujata Bhatt
Poppies in Translation [EPUB ebook]
Poppies in Translation [EPUB ebook]
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 145 ● ISBN 9781847774903 ● File size 1.8 MB ● Publisher Carcanet Poetry ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5804348 ● Copy protection Social DRM