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This is life seen through distorting screens—a windscreen, TV screen, newsprint, mirror, water, breath, heat haze, smokescreen.
The Terrorist at My Table asks crucial questions about how we live now—working, travelling, eating, listening to the news, preparing for attack. What do any of us know about the person who shares this street, this house, this table, this body? When life is in the hands of a fellow-traveller, a neighbour, a lover, son or daughter, how does the world shift and reform itself around our doubt, our belief?
Imtiaz Dharker’s poems and pictures in this book hurtle through a world that changes even as we pass. The book grows, layer by layer, through three sequences—‘The Terrorist at My Table’, ‘The Habit of Departure’ and ‘Worldwide Rickshaw Ride’—each cutting a different slice through the terrain of what we think of as normal. But through all the uncertainties and concealments, her poems unveil the delicate skin of love, trust and sudden recognition.
ISBN: 9780143102427
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Pages : 160
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