Songs of a Coward: Poems of Exile

By   and Perumal Murugan

A king decrees that all humans be skinned alive. A man runs from words that hound him like a pack of wolves. A legion of white snakes sweeps across a land blighted by drought. A beleaguered soul laments the loss of a homeland. A coward's many virtues are lauded to disturbing effect.
By turns passionate, elegiac, angry, tender, nightmarish and courageous, the poems in Songs of a Coward weave an exquisite tapestry of rich images and turbulent emotions. Written during a period of immense personal turmoil, these verses are an enduring testament to the resilience of an imagination under siege and the liberating power of words in one's darkest moments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143428829
• ISBN13: 9780143428824
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: India Penguin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.