Ebook: Poppies in Translation

Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua. Many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt & rsquo;s many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal and the allegorical; certainties are undone in an open-ended quest. A Chinese cook ignores a predatory snake, a heart surgeon lives most intensely between operations, Gregor Samsa & rsquo;s sister proposes a different sort of metamorphosis, someone listens to the Holy Ghost sing, a woman hears her daughter & rsquo;s voice in birdsong, and the poppies in translation mutate according to the languages and histories they inhabit, ultimately persisting in a space beyond language. At times, language itself is injured by history: Bhatt reimagines the haunted undertow of postwar Germany as experienced by Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. Meanwhile, the poppies are ever-present.;Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; I: A Different Incarnation; Today; Truth is Mute; Another Muse; Redness; Schlafmohn, Blaumohn: Allerleilustblume; Six Poems for John Ashbery; Après un Rêve; L'Heure Exquise; My Dear Jungle; Dorothy's Summer Dream; Icarus; Poisson d'Avril; Between Hearts; Ars Poetica with Poppies and Birds; Conil de la Frontera, June 2012; Where a Scorpion Sleeps -- Tête Fantastique; Elephant and Boats; Underneath the Bridges; Some Days; bis wir kleine Fische geworden sind ; Florence; A German Education; Self-Portrait as a Soul.