My City is a Murder of Crows

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Here is a book where a love of language doesn’t turn into mere technique, where craft doesn’t degenerate into mere cleverness, where self-awareness doesn’t slide into mere self-consciousness. Nikita Parik’s poems map cities and bodies, journeying past exoskeleton to hushed interior, leaving a welter of poignant images in their wake—an itr-seller ‘with old eyes’, a mouth that is ‘an Indian balcony during the months of saawan and bhaado’, a city that becomes ‘a stinking hilsa’ in a passenger’s tote bag. Warmly intelligent and tenderly alive, this is a book that holds many ‘promises’—and not just in the ‘future tense’. – Arundhathi Subramaniam

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Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 8 × 5 × 0.25 in
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Hawakal Publishers Private Limited

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31 July 2022