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Pure Lizard
Sujata Bhatt
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Description for Pure Lizard
Paperback. Transformation is the main theme of this collection. This work also documents artistic exchange in its many forms: Schiller's desk is taken to Buchenwald during the Second World War, and Jane Eyre haunts a laboratory in Baltimore. There are poems in response to music by composers such as Telemann, Bob Zieff, and Philip Glass. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 188.
Transformation is the underlying theme of Sujata Bhatt's new collection, the title deriving from a mystical being with skin that is 'pure lizard'. The natural world is ever present in these poems; monkeys, crickets and bats reappear in new incarnations, and a field of organic sunflowers in Pennsylvania is juxtaposed with sunflowers grown out of the toxic soil of Chernobyl. "Pure Lizard" also documents artistic exchange in its many forms: Schiller's desk is taken to Buchenwald during the Second World War, and Jane Eyre haunts a laboratory in Baltimore. There are poems in response to music by composers as varied ... Read more
Transformation is the underlying theme of Sujata Bhatt's new collection, the title deriving from a mystical being with skin that is 'pure lizard'. The natural world is ever present in these poems; monkeys, crickets and bats reappear in new incarnations, and a field of organic sunflowers in Pennsylvania is juxtaposed with sunflowers grown out of the toxic soil of Chernobyl. "Pure Lizard" also documents artistic exchange in its many forms: Schiller's desk is taken to Buchenwald during the Second World War, and Jane Eyre haunts a laboratory in Baltimore. There are poems in response to music by composers as varied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548334
SKU
V9781857548334
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Ref
99-14
About Sujata Bhatt
Sujata Bhatt was born May 6 1956 in Ahmedabad, India and raised in Pune, India. She has lived, studied and worked in the United States, and is a graduate of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet, England and Penguin Books, India: Brunizem (1988) won the Alice ... Read more
Reviews for Pure Lizard
'It's vibrant, colourful and tense - an exquisite portrait. Read it in one sitting.' - Poetry London on Sujata Bhatt's previous work.