{"product_id":"now-then-and-again-ananya-s-guha-9781988827513","title":"Now, Then and Again","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The fifty-two new poems in this collection are primarily driven by Ananya S Guha's raw emotion -- that of anger, disappointment, and sometimes helplessness at the political state of affairs. These are words of protest, dissonance and dissent that speak out loud against the wrongs of society and its people.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Sudeep Sen, author of EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House) and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the words of the poet Robin Wyatt Dunn: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anaya Guha is a delicate writer, aiming to please, and then changing his mind, and taking out his guns instead.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But Ananya only fires into the air; is it a challenge? Perhaps only for the sound of the gunshot.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A race?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ananya's English is the English of the British Empire, still alive, still polite, still concerned, still incapable of doing what it most wants to do, because English cannot do that, must not, have what it wants.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Instead, it circles around, cycles around, tearing out its hair.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The colonial English of the British Empire seems especially concerned with misdirection, obfuscation, willful ignorance, and Ananya is obedient to some expect to this regimen, but is aware of his obedience and wants to show the reader the limits of the conversation he is allowed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But in the best traditions of a language over several continents, Ananya Guha infuses his English with the lush life of his subcontinent. In \"flowers,\" we can see both the rich fecundity of his native Shillong, and the dual nature of these blooms evanescence: is their leaving an Eastern koan, describing some mystery of the spirit, or is it a colonial doom, pressing in on the viceroys and their adjutants, overcoming their delicate blue blood sensibilities?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ananya Guha is aware too of his own status as a kind of blue blood, shielded from the poverty and the death and destruction of so many of his countrymen. For Victoria, the poor were unfortunates, bad cousins of that medieval courtroom drama in heaven sung in carmina burana, O Fortuna, and then of course this morphed into what we still know as a neoliberal \/ neo conservative Social Darwinism come again, of the poor as personal failures, deserving their fate.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ananya S. Guha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1988827515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988827513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scarlet Leaf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Ananya S. Guha","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519730888959,"sku":"9781988827513","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af3c6faa-fd81-455a-91e0-4ff50ceb88c7.jpg?v=1778738468","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/now-then-and-again-ananya-s-guha-9781988827513","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}