Cosmophilia (eBook)
96 Seiten
Talonbooks (Verlag)
978-0-88922-997-6 (ISBN)
What earthly use is the love of ornament? Slowing down to look closely at an inherited shawl made by hand, the title poem in Rahat Kurd's Cosmophilia traces an object of luxury to the traditionally male art of Kashmiri shawl embroidery. The poet works with images from Kashmir, her maternal family's place of origin, where the ability to make and appreciate beautiful things is both absolutely essential and taken for granted; where increasingly rare levels of artistic mastery are simultaneously prized and trivialized; where the struggle to carry on traditional art forms is strained by awareness of increasing obsolescence, severe political repression, and environmental degradation; a place both celebrated and dismissed as spectacle, as "e;paradise on earth."e;The question persists, throughout other poems in Cosmophilia, both as self-reflexive creative practice and existential dilemma. On the concrete streets of Vancouver, the anonymity and material ease of cities tug at the poet's consciousness of frayed traditional ideals, both philosophical and aesthetic. Religious language and rituals considered in the aftermath of a marriage take on complex, subversive, and irreverent layers in a seven-poem sequence. Allusive, playful multilingual imagery inhabits long narrative meditations, free-form couplets, and the traditional ghazal, in elegiac or sharply satirical moods. Nastaliq, a centuries-old form of Persian and Urdu calligraphy, speaks to the author through the smoke-damaged voice of a fading celebrity confessional. The emotionally powerful collection follows the elaborate, unexpected turns of the poet's imagination, enlisting intricate details of memory and language and the occasional plain truth - "e;the hard solitude of the maker."e; They intertwine political conflict and family history; they imagine Hamlet reluctantly confronting the partition of India and Pakistan. Cosmophilia translates multiple glittering facets of Muslim culture into, and reflects back from, the immediacy of embodied, urban Canadian experience.
Rahat Kurd was a finalist in the 2014 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize and named Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category of the 2013 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Awards. Her essays have appeared in The Walrus and Maisonneuve magazines. She is a poet and a prose writer at work on a memoir about the making of Muslim culture in North America. Her work has been nominated for National Magazine Awards in the categories of Poetry and Personal Journalism (2011) and shortlisted for a CBC Literary Award (2007). She is the author of Reading Rights: A Woman’s Guide to the Law in Canada (Quarry Press, 1999).
CONTENTSArt HistoryNastaliq Confesses At TwilightMarried to English (Lines Composed at Brockton Oval)Blue Glass TulipsShish MahalCosmophilia (for Fahmida Begam)Ghazal: In the PersianGhazal: On EidInheritanceMetal IMetal IIMarrying Burnaby, Evening, AprilThe Last Seven Minutes of L’EclisseGrief WakingGrief MirrorModern (for Abdul Rehman)April Is When I Most Hate VancouverFor Those Who Dwell In North-Facing ApartmentsSeven Stones for Jamarat (Sequence of Seven Poems)Tajwid LessonWagah BorderWagah Border IIIncantation/ReversalSurplus Knowledge After Zam Zam CONTENTSArt HistoryNastaliq Confesses At TwilightMarried to English (Lines Composed at Brockton Oval)Blue Glass TulipsShish MahalCosmophilia (for Fahmida Begam)Ghazal: In the PersianGhazal: On EidInheritanceMetal IMetal IIMarryingBurnaby, Evening, AprilThe Last Seven Minutes of L’EclisseGrief WakingGrief MirrorModern (for Abdul Rehman)April Is When I Most Hate VancouverFor Those Who Dwell In North-Facing ApartmentsSeven Stones for Jamarat (Sequence of Seven Poems)Tajwid LessonWagah BorderWagah Border IIIncantation/ReversalSurplus KnowledgeAfter Zam Zam
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.12.2015 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Schlagworte | Canada • Imagery • Kashmir • Multilingual • muslim culture • Poetry |
ISBN-10 | 0-88922-997-X / 088922997X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-88922-997-6 / 9780889229976 |
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