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What the Bird Tattoo Hides
Robert Bohm
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Description for What the Bird Tattoo Hides
Paperback. In a new, compelling poetry collection, What the Bird Tattoo Hides, Bohm arrives in rural India in 1968, "seeking truth's taste." Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
In a new, compelling poetry collection, What the Bird Tattoo Hides, Bohm arrives in rural India in 1968, “seeking truth’s taste.” His stories about many of its personalities, including outsiders and their hidden histories, reveal the daily lives of haughty Sundara, labor leader Dev Raj, Meeda Mama, and Dada who likes “a few rums / before supper,” as they work, argue, celebrate, and raise their children, struggling to better their lives and sometimes taking up arms to fight for caste and class justice.
Bohm’s work challenges the West’s falsely exotic and colonial view of India. As he chronicles three ... Read more
In a new, compelling poetry collection, What the Bird Tattoo Hides, Bohm arrives in rural India in 1968, “seeking truth’s taste.” His stories about many of its personalities, including outsiders and their hidden histories, reveal the daily lives of haughty Sundara, labor leader Dev Raj, Meeda Mama, and Dada who likes “a few rums / before supper,” as they work, argue, celebrate, and raise their children, struggling to better their lives and sometimes taking up arms to fight for caste and class justice.
Bohm’s work challenges the West’s falsely exotic and colonial view of India. As he chronicles three ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
West End Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780991074242
SKU
V9780991074242
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About Robert Bohm
Robert Bohm was born in Queens, New York, in 1943 and served in the US Army from 1967 to 1968 at a receiving hospital in Germany during the Vietnam War. His first book, In the Americas, won the Great Lakes Colleges Association award for poetry in 1980. In his later work,Closing the Hotel Kitchen (West End Press), he portrayed growing ... Read more
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