The Grimoire of Grimalkin

By Sascha Aurora Akhtar

Book Overview

The Grimoire of Grimalkin was conceived during passionate affairs with French fin-de-si?cle literature and Russian poets from the 1920s of the obscure kind. At the same time, the poet was conducting... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844715345
• ISBN13: 9781844715343
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Salt Pub
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The Grimoire's Poetic Seduction

Alright... I've read it, and can only praise it! I'm astounded! It's brilliant! There is a light, a warmth, and a distance between the words... room to breath, to live, to die, a vibrancy and an energy that is almost organic in its form. Sascha Auroa Akhtar's Grimoire of Grimalkin, is a poetic journey that could lead the reader anywhere. This is entirely dependent on how much the reader is prepared to give of him/herself because the Grimoire does place demands... such as an openness and a strong desire to follow the feelings, the threads and thought trains of the writer. The Grimoire almost forces the reader through the entire spectrum of emotion... humor, irony, anger, sadness, loneliness etc. etc. This means that the passive reader has no chance, he may as well use the book to light the fire with, and that would be a damned shame. The Grimoire of Grimalkin is an amazing feast of impression from many quarters... visual, lingual, psychological and physical, magical, musical, mystical and mythological to name but a few. The literary references, the structure and language give a certain intellectual tone as well... I think. But then there's also something bawdy, something sexy and something very mischievous about it all! This work is also uncommonly inspirational and motivating. As a writer myself, I only need to read a couple of verses and am being swept away with associations, themes, ideas and images of my own. A beautiful work of art here... very living and vital... moving and intriguing. I can't help sensing something Joycean, Dickenish or even jabberwockyish here, but on reflection I think one can find many other literal influences and associations as well. This verse covers a lot of ground inside a world that I love to be in, be surprised in and yet feel at home in... if that makes sense. Yes, I fell in love with this, Grimoire of Grimalkin and that's that. I can only invite you to take the chance, and if you're lucky... it may seduce you as well!