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Here, attentive to the ode in downbeats of lament, Alluri finds a restorative poetry: that the incantatory in the fragmented can be heard as a form of wholeness, that displacement can become a way of being in the world, one which holds and is held by listening, by care and collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49665724875025,"sku":"GOR013571142","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51048939684113,"sku":"NIN9781736672129","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1736672126.jpg?v=1750800927"},{"product_id":"we-were-not-alone-book-hari-alluri-9780578301556","title":"We Were Not Alone","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50357674148113,"sku":"CIN0578301555G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51003870118161,"sku":"NIN9780578301556","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0578301555.jpg?v=1786119148"},{"product_id":"promise-of-rust-book-hari-alluri-9780996724739","title":"The Promise of Rust","description":"\u003cp\u003eI am thrown by Hari's collection where the city is akimbo and cut with cactus sap, whalesong, the child and father where the voice shakes with the elders drinking grog, longing for stray dogs and alleyways. In the gentle sway of a flag, Hari finds violence-because he carries a new, quiet brush of multi-currents, of multi-worlds to paint this holographic life-scape; a most rare set of poems-with jazz beat word lines, long-line wisdom and open space scenes where you can widen your eyes, scrape your hands and rush into colliding worlds, the phosphorescence, that is, the flow mixed, the blur of it, the infinite capacities, the drunk-walk of total vision. Love this post-surreal kulingtang, read Hari's oceanics, his cement melter; it is pushing out your green rain skin-come back with your delicious original self. 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Driven by what is residual—displacement, family, violent yet delicate masculinity, undervalued yet imperative work—Alluri's lines quiver with the poet's distinctive rendering of praise and lament steeped with \"gravity and blood\" where \"the smell of ants being born surrounds us\" and \"city lights form constellations \/\/ invented to symbolize war.\" The Flayed City offers a powerful glimpse into a secondary world whose cities, cultural histories and trajectories are hybrids or \"immigrated\" versions of this one.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402208055569,"sku":"CIN1885030479G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126510907665,"sku":"NLS9781885030474","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52510923587857,"sku":"NIN9781885030474","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1885030479.jpg?v=1751280998"},{"product_id":"tabako-on-the-windowsill-book-hari-alluri-9781771316491","title":"Tabako on the Windowsill","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn altar is a door; wonder is the key.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat losses and intimacies bring you to this threshold? \u003ci\u003eTabako on the Windowsill\u003c\/i\u003e contends tenderly with such questions, initiating through them the work of transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo shape an entire book around portals and thresholds is to search for living myth. Hari Alluri's poems build from comic books, television, paintings, folklore, music, and a unique imagination. Following an immigrant point of view while maintaining home in a language that engages with blood and chosen family, Alluri offers multiple lived and ancestral spaces in India, the Philippines, Nigeria, the U.S., and Canada. Guided by a burning attention--to braids of displacement, loss, and joy, to multiple beginnings--Alluri creates moments where we can expand through the personhood of perception into wider, overlapping worlds of perspective and possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51640409882897,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51640410046737,"sku":"NIN9781771316491","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67615494373649,"sku":"NLS9781771316491","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1771316497.jpg?v=1769509299"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-hari-alluri.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}