{"product_id":"my-dead-flowers-9789365699678","title":"My Dead Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Buku Sarkar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fourth Estate In\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e20 books | 5 years | 1 pathbreaking collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Dead Flowers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are rivers; they meander, change course, are a swirl of eddies and back-eddies. They snake through the streets of Paris, New York City, Calcutta. And they sing of love - of its unruliness; its faltering ways; of its tenacious hold over memory. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRemind me that I was once alive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Buku Sarkar says, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ebecause of you\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are poems that reveal themselves not only in verse - hurried jottings on paper - but as photographs, each 'a reminder \/ there's nothing left'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThayil Editions Number Two is an invocation of Baudelaire's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLes Fleurs du Mal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. But its preoccupations have less to do with good and evil, decadence and death, than with coming out alive - 'Once you've stood in\/ the middle of a park \/ With no clothes on, \/ You can do anything.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47616264405143,"sku":"9789365699678","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789365699678.webp?v=1775112183","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/my-dead-flowers-9789365699678","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}