Flayed City, the

Hari Alluri has been described by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as a writer who "carries a new, quiet brush of multi-currents, of multi-worlds to paint this holographic life-scape." In The Flayed City, he offers an intimate look into the lives of city dwellers and immigrants in a collection of charged poems that sweep together "an archipelago song" scored by memory and landscape, history and mythology, desire and loss.Driven by what is residual -- displacement, family, violent yet delicate masculinity, undervalued yet imperative work -- Alluri's lines quiver with the poet's distinctive rendering of praise and lament steeped with "gravity and blood" where "the smell of ants being born surrounds us" and "city lights form constellations // invented to symbolize war." The Flayed City offers a powerful glimpse into a secondary world whose cities, cultural histories and trajectories are hybrids or "immigrated" versions of this one.San Diego-based poet and teacher Hari Alluri is the cofounder of Locked Horn Press.
ISBN 9781885030474. Kaya Press. pb. 5.25 x 8 in. / 88 pgs..
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