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Lamentations
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781763600980
Publisher: Life Before Man
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.86
Language: English
In Lamentations, Subhash Jaireth composes a river of voices - philosophical, tender, and reverent - flowing through landscapes of memory, loss, and renewal. Part meditation, part love story, and part elegy for the natural world, these prose poems move between rivers and deserts, Bashō and Hafez, Australia and Persia, tracing how water remembers, how language listens, and how grief transforms into grace.
Through the dialogue of two consciousnesses - intimate, questioning, and profoundly attuned - Jaireth explores the porous boundaries between the human and the elemental. Rivers become voices, rocks become listeners, and words themselves turn liquid, carrying echoes of the world's oldest stories.
A work of rare beauty and wisdom, Lamentations is both a hymn to water and a quiet reckoning with what it means to belong - to a place, to another, and to the earth itself.
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