Poppies in Translation

by Sujata Bhatt

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, a heart surgeon lives most intensely between operations, Gregor Samsa's sister proposes a different sort of metamorphosis, someone listens to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847770207
• ISBN13: 9781847770202
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.4"