Boki

Name: Boki
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ISBN: 9780979882548

ISBN-10: 0979882540

ISBN-13: 9780979882548

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nitoo Das

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Boki. A word that means nothing in English, but when you come to the poem that it's in well, there it stands for a shouted syllable, a deconstruction of someone's name -- someone who "went around / with scowling hair, // her long betel-spittled / lips exploding sex-words" while "She sat in street-corners / and exposed glistening secrets / like roots with / shifty-eyed knowledge." A "nonsense" word that brings so much from its two syllables, is surely what poetry is about. The creation of image from sound. To bok in Assamese means to mutter/speak meaninglessly and repetitively. The Sanskrit word, Vak, from which this irreverent Assamese derivative takes its origins, means Speech. And Nitoo…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Virtual Artists Collective
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.23" tall
Weight: 0.330