Treasurer of Piggy Banks Einde en begin

Treasurer of Piggy Banks Einde en beginVinod Kumar Shukla (trans. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) Infiltrator or inhabitant? In Treasurer of Piggy Banks, Shukla sees the world through both lenses at once. All details are local yet canonical. We are uprooted and yet everywhere roots are spreading far and wide. Shukla illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic and surreal clarity, from environmental collapse, to the way our own deaths are snug inside our lives. The poems are

Both his books — like his paintings — have a thrice-distilled quality of finality and impersonality

grappling with his heritage

Ishii pens songs of momentary love and flames of lust

The smell of trash on a winter street

Joyelle McSweeney

and ultimately imagine a new kind of poem: at once code and confession

The whole is never the sum of its parts

or dramatis personae set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative

' – Anna Moschovakis

This volume brings together Baudelaire’s late fragmentary writings

ghostly light of personal devastation and grief

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