Treasurer of Piggy Banks An Orange In the first of its

In the first of its three parts

here is a melancomic portrait of existence in 2024/5

Krog gaat een gesprek aan met de lezer

the selection triumphantly concludes with portions of the late sequences Helen in Egypt and Hermetic Definition which focus on rebirth

Treasurer of Piggy Banks An Orange In the first of itsVinod Kumar Shukla (trans. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) Infiltrator or inhabitant? In Treasurer of Piggy Banks, Shukla sees the world through both lenses at once. All details are local yet canonical. We are uprooted and yet everywhere roots are spreading far and wide. Shukla illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic and surreal clarity, from environmental collapse, to the way our own deaths are snug inside our lives. The poems are