{"product_id":"9780956546746","title":"Kalagora","description":"In this dazzling debut collection by Indian-born poet Siddhartha Bose, the cities of Kolkata, Mumbai, New York and London are transformed into sites of fractured vision.\u003cp\u003eBose has created a volatile, dynamic poetics in which love and longing compete with the hybrid, multicultural cityscape. A five-part structure reflects this multiplicity: 'Prolectric' and 'Epilepsis' book-end sequences on childhood and initiation ('Sunya'), love ('Maya') and the city ('Nagri'). Kalagora is a Hindi neologism meaning black man \/ white man; this book tells his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Emerging fully formed with this exquisitely crafted debut, Siddhartha Bose intrigues, surprises, shocks and seduces the reader, pushing the text to the edges of truth. This is a guttural, painfully honest text, yet at times tender and emotive, the sound of the poems creating a form of sculpture for the ear. The book spans continents and cities: Calcutta, Bombay, London, New York. A truly contemporary work which does what good poetry does best: to make the personal universal and the international local.\"\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Joseph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Forget the usual flimflam about the 'potential' of the debut collection; Kalagora introduces Bose as a poet well into his stride. These emanations from the author's token cities tentacle back to a kind of electrolife that sustains the entire collection. Here, amid filmic precision, extraordinary dare and constant ingenuity, Bose directs a vaudevillian array of seemingly apocryphal characters that come and go with metamorphic freedom. This is rampantly active and radioactive poetry; crammed with shock visions and a siege of narratives. The cumulative effect is powerful and intense; Kalagora is a vital book of poems for the 21st century.\"\u003cbr\u003eJames Byrne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most exciting first collections I've come across in a long time ... Kalagora bestrides continents and celebrates cities as engines of creativity where dogs talk in hieroglyphs and where a man can be a moth.\"\u003cbr\u003eIan McMillan, The Verb on BBC Radio 3\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penned in the Margins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50091594645744,"sku":"9780956546746","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780956546746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}