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Boki by Nitoo Das (Paperback, 2008)

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Boki. A word that means nothing in English, but when you come to the poem that it's in - well, there it stands for a shouted syllable, a deconstruction of someone's name -- someone who went around / with scowling hair, // her long betel-spittled / lips exploding sex-words while She sat in street-corners / and exposed glistening secrets / like roots with / shifty-eyed knowledge. A nonsense word that brings so much from its two syllables, is surely what poetry is about. The creation of image from sound. To bok in Assamese means to mutter/speak meaninglessly and repetitively. The Sanskrit word, Vak, from which this irreverent Assamese derivative takes its origins, means Speech. And Nitoo Das's Boki speaks in an explosion of images in which she demonstrates an uncanny ability to create poems that surprise us, hold us, move us to see things in new ways. A poem / laughs / when you tell it to sit. These poems not only laugh but insist on dancing. They taste lush and orange on the tongue like Disco-Papita, and they will leave you turning the pages for more.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Virtual Artists Collective
ISBN-13
9780979882548
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107501663

Product Key Features

Book Title
Boki
Author
Nitoo Das
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
96 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
153g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Nitoo Das
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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