LOST, HURT, OR IN TRANSIT BEAUTIFUL
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1946482544
ISBN-13
9781946482549
Publisher
Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Imprint
Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 11th, 2025
Print length
60 Pages
Weight
113 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 0.50 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry
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“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
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