The Flayed City
Paperback or Softback 88 pages Mar 28, 2017
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Hari Alluri has been described by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as a writer who "carries a new, quiet brush of multi-currents, of multi-worlds to paint this holographic life-scape." In The Flayed City, he offers an intimate look into the lives of city dwellers and immigrants in a collection of charged poems that sweep together "an archipelago song" scored by memory and landscape, history and mythology, desire and loss. Driven by what is residual--displacement, family, violent yet delicate masculinity, undervalued yet imperative work--Alluri's lines quiver with the poet's distinctive rendering of praise and lament steeped with "gravity and blood" where "the smell of ants being born surrounds us" and "city lights form constellations // invented to symbolize war." The Flayed City offers a powerful glimpse into a secondary world whose cities, cultural histories and trajectories are hybrids or "immigrated" versions of this one.
- Author:
- Hari Alluri
- Publisher:
- Kaya Press
- Publication Date:
- Mar 28, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 88 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 1885030479
- ISBN-13:
- 9781885030474