num_pages: 90
description: Clay Lamps &amp; Fighter Kites is an intimate poetic journey that strives to "translate" South Asian and East African imagery into a Canadian poetic context. Drawing primarily on the devotional tradition of South Asian literature, and rooted in a Canadian landscape, this work explores a blending of cultures and traditions. The otherness of the imagery to a Western reader, and of the form to an Eastern reader, elucidates the divide of the immigrant experience. Yet the use of diasporic images, the blending of mythic systems, offers new insight into both cultures, and starts a redefinition of the shared geography of a global world.
language: English
title: Clay lamps & fighter kites
titlecomplete: Clay lamps & fighter kites (The Mercury Press poetry)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Mercury Press