Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets
by Ayaz Pirani
2021-01-06 06:38:58
Kabir's Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets
by Ayaz Pirani
2021-01-06 06:38:58
Step into the crater of East Africa and meet the grain of sand from Sindh. Eat pearls from Indian Ismaili ginans and attend to the True Guru. Aglow with post-colonial loss, wryly defiant of what they are admitting, the poems in Kabir?s Jacket Has a T...
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Step into the crater of East Africa and meet the grain of sand from Sindh. Eat pearls from Indian Ismaili ginans and attend to the True Guru. Aglow with post-colonial loss, wryly defiant of what they are admitting, the poems in Kabir?s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets describe a warm estrangement and salty gratitude for being on Earth. It?s not war-reporting and Ayaz doesn?t solve crimes. He doesn?t have his head in the lion?s mouth. He draws from Kabir?s Bijak, Ghalib, and the oral granth and ginan tradition to plot a lifelong and generational immigration.
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