| Description |
1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- I. Tanpura's Strum -- II. Of Kadipatta Leaves and Everything in Between -- III. Tell the Hairstylist, Keep It Long -- IV. First Day of Spring -- V. Moon Face -- VI. Corn Cobs at Kisama -- VII. His Body Is My Home -- VIII. Grow Wild Like Kelp -- IX. Small Talk in Office -- X. Moons of Different Planets -- XI. Embers of a Diwali Sparkler -- XII. Of What We Used To Be -- XIII. Words Become Play -- Credit to the Illustrators -- About the Cover Artist |
| Summary |
Motherhood, heartbreak, loss, love -- even the tangible: vegetables, beaches, forests and salons, oh, I wanted to write about it all! The brevity of form made it possible to cover a stunning range of landscapes -- emotional and physical. Like a jigsaw puzzle, I kept arranging, rearranging lines in poems, addicted to that dose of serotonin that washed over me when a haiku or tanka set well.Guavas pop-up here as do sunflowers, nieces and lovers. Playful and brooding, heart-breaking and exultant, these poems strobed in watercolor art, revel as much in the lushness of nature as the depth of feelings found within a human heart.Jesal has always been drawn to making beautiful connections with seemingly disparate ideas. When a haiku juxtaposes two disparate images, out of the synergy jumps a new, nuanced meaning.If we look at urban existence, it is fraught with dissonance: the push and pull of expectations, the contradictions within roles, and also -- unexpected, raw beauty. So, haiku and tanka seem to Jesal as perfect forms for expressing this fractured, beautiful ordinary life.Written from the perspective of a young woman, the poems in Tanpura's Strum draw from the themes of love, heartbreak, loss, motherhood, the progression of time and nature. Set on a wide-ranging canvas of the natural world -- beaches, forests and urban flora -- as well as the domestic -- cafés, homes and street life, the poems rest on nectar-like moments that make us feel most alive, impassioned and at other times soul-crushingly human |
| Analysis |
Poetry (Poetic Works By One Author) |
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Poetry |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry--21st century
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781954021334 |
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195402133X |
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