Chhava Prakaran 1 Shivaji Sawant
Step into an infinite world of stories
Lyric Poetry & Drama
'I should never ask directions to my childhood', writes Fred D'Aguiar: 'There is no way back home'.
The Rose of Toulouse is a book of geographies tracing the various places the poet has lived, their histories, and his own history as he travels away from who he was. His transformations and shifts - between Britain, Guyana and the USA - are his identity: 'Each year I travel, my passport photolooks less like me.'
In both flexible free verse and more formally patterned poems, D'Aguiar conveys the fragility of flesh and the transience of memories.
© 2013 Carcanet Poetry (Ebook): 9781847777799
Release date
Ebook: 30 May 2013
English
India