LOST, HURT, OR IN TRANSIT BEAUTIFUL - Softcover

Chhetri, Rohan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946482544 ISBN 13: 9781946482549

Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated, 2021

Synopsis

“In Rohan Chhetri’s Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful,? inherited literary forms― the ode, the lyric, and pristine tercets― are juxtaposed with gorgeously fractured and stylistically daring hybrid pieces. The end result is a work in which poetic technique is brought to bear on lingering questions of identity, artistic tradition, and the cruelty implicit in language itself. Here, form, grammar, and syntax function as a kind of containment, but also, a ‘ruined field’ that is rife with possibility. Chhetri dramatizes and resists the ways language, and its implicit logic, limit what is possible within our most solitary reflections, defining even those ‘vague dreams’ that in the end we greet alone. ‘This is how violence enters / a poem,’ he explains, ‘through a screen / door crawling out & Mother asleep on the couch.’ These pieces are as lyrical as they are grounded, and as understated as they are ambitious. ‘In my language, there is a name for this music,’ he tells us. As his stunning collection unfolds, Chhetri reminds us, with subtlety and grace, that the smallest stylistic decisions in poetry are politically charged. This is a haunting book.”
―from the Judge’s Citation by Kristina Marie Darling

Edition details

• Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1946482544
• ISBN 13: 9781946482549
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60