Naming the Hungers
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Author: hadab Zeest Hashmi
Set in “Silk Road” tea rooms underneath the shadows of Orientalist paintings, Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s poetry collection Naming the Hungers is an experiment in liquid ekphrasis, utilizing forms such as lyric and the lesser-known qasida against an encyclopedic sojourn into global trade’s postcolonial hauntings. The result is a remarkable philosophical examination of received knowledge—whether meted out through the indiscriminate drone strike, Rudyard Kipling’s racial animus or Thomas Lipton’s plantation land-grabs—and of the mourning that accompanies the present’s dragnet on hospitable tomorrows yet unbuilt.
ISBN 9781935717317. Kaya Press. pb. .
not yet published
Set in “Silk Road” tea rooms underneath the shadows of Orientalist paintings, Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s poetry collection Naming the Hungers is an experiment in liquid ekphrasis, utilizing forms such as lyric and the lesser-known qasida against an encyclopedic sojourn into global trade’s postcolonial hauntings. The result is a remarkable philosophical examination of received knowledge—whether meted out through the indiscriminate drone strike, Rudyard Kipling’s racial animus or Thomas Lipton’s plantation land-grabs—and of the mourning that accompanies the present’s dragnet on hospitable tomorrows yet unbuilt.
ISBN 9781935717317. Kaya Press. pb. .
not yet published