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Domestic creatures poems
- "Poetry, from the perspective of Manohar Shetty, is the art of the telling detail - details coiled around a central core of memory and emotion. This is a poet who does not take refuge in huge, all-meaning ambiguity and rhetoric. His art is exact. Creatures, great and small, people Shetty's poetic world - from the spider ('A jiggling asterisk') to the king cobra (whose hood 'mushrooms/Open like an explosion') to a peacock startlingly observed. This is a poetry of vivid metaphor extending into the real world, mirroring through unique angles the violence and tension in our everyday lives. From this pitch of imagination, clothes hung out to dry 'droop like limp tongues', and the jackfruit is a 'Strange, maternal fruit'. Shetty's poems glint like the carefully honed edge of a favourite kitchen knife. Balancing the controlled images of violence and urban neuroses is a set of love poems, as well as some moving poems on children."
- "Domestic creatures : poems"
- "Domestic creatures poems"@en