A South African WoodcutBased on the experiences of a lecture and reading tour in South Africa, these poems deal with the state of a society just unfreezing from apartheid, but in indirect ways which illuminate by their obliqueness. "The poems deal with that landscape, each one like a sharply etched woodcut, ranging from a fine tribute to a poet caught 'under the strong shaft of the Johannesburg sun' of this politically volcanic city, to a 'frozen image' of sacred ibises in Durban's Botanical Garden. None of his poems is tendentious, but each is tense with quiet intensity." Sudeep Sen lives and works in New Delhi & London. He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS. |
