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Navigating the Quartz Forest

Navigating the Quartz Forest

Hardcover

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798893307856
Publisher: Arpress
Published: Feb 27 2024
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Each dreamlike lyric in Biman Roy's Navigating the Quartz Forest is charmingly paired with a small handwritten note hastily jotted down on blue-lined notebook paper-artifacts from his daughter's life outside the family home. All through the evening, we keep talking nonessentials, / tiptoeing around secret tulips, he says. These notes, like scraps of overheard conversations removed from their natural habitats, become the crystalline seeds of new poems. Side-by-side with each other, the poems act as translator for these somewhat oracular messages from an unknown world of teenage gossip and pop culture references, fitting the pieces together like a shattered mirror and filling in the jagged-edged gaps with the poet's expansive imagination. In Navigating the Quartz Forest, Roy's whimsical poems become a sparkling tribute from a father to his beloved daughter.

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