About this title: Creatures great and small people Shetty's poetic world - from the spider ("A jiggling asterisk"), to the king cobra (whose hood "mushrooms/Open like an explosion"); from ants (with "Bodies like puffed rice") to a peacock startlingly observed. This is a poetry of vivid metaphor extending into the real world, mirroring through unique angles the violence and tension in our everyday lives. From this pitch of imagination clothes hung out to dry "droop like limp tongues", and the jackfruit is a "strange maternal fruit". Balancing the controlled images of violence and urban neuroses is a set of love ...
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