Visceral Metropolis

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Author: Uttaran Das Gupta
Published Date: 01/01/2020
ISBN: 978-81-945093-1-8
Pages: 80

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When this book is published and you read it/ your morality will be outraged and/ you will say: ‘… … I always/ knew he was a little weird but I didn’t/ know he was such a pervert. When did he/ write all this? How did he find the time?’

Visceral Metropolis grapples boldly with its three central subjects: the big city as crucible, sewer, testing ground and festive parade of illusions; the individual self that is alternately ambushed and replenished by the big city, and must craft itself as it goes; and poetry itself, as passion, elusive illumination, pleasure, redemption. Ranjit Hoskote, author of Jonahwhale

In this set of startling, deceptively conversational poems, Uttaran Das Gupta claims and creates a Delhi from history’s landfills. Nilanjana S Roy, author of The Wildings

There is in these lines a coruscating rage and desperation that the formal rigour, the meter, the rhyme, can scarcely contain, though there will be moments of love and tenderness, a glint of humour, a comforting memory… Rahul Soni, translator of A Name for Every Leaf