Kerala Journal

Kerala Journal is a series of poetic dispatches from the Malabar Coast of India, written between March...
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Author: Kim Dorman
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Language: English
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Kerala Journal by Dorman, Kim

Kerala Journal

¥4,521

Kerala Journal

¥4,521
Author: Kim Dorman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Kerala Journal is a series of poetic dispatches from the Malabar Coast of India, written between March 2019 and January 2021 by American poet Kim Dorman. The book is inspired by forms of classical Japanese literature, especially the travel diaries of Matsuo Bashō. By focusing on the small, often rhythmic events of daily life, Dorman's work transfigures the local into the universal. He alerts us to the linguistic discoveries of a poetry in which acts of perception ripple quietly through the individual; a poetry that is therefore attentive to both sensation and reflection.


While many of the poems in Kerala Journal are distilled into just a few words, they explore a wide yet intimate gamut of experience: rivers, roads, people, trees, birds, insects, plants and flowers. The changing seasons, phases of the moon and times of day are keenly felt presences. The book itself is suffused with his life-long reading of a wide array of sources: classical Chinese poetry, medieval Indian devotional and philosophical works, the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, William Blake, the journals of Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth, and 20th century American poets William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Cid Corman, Robert Lax and Lorine Niedecker. The result is nothing less than a modern classic.



Author: Kim Dorman
Publisher: Xylem Books
Published: 06/17/2021
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9781916393554

About the Author
Dorman, Kim: - Kim Dorman was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and grew up in Oklahoma and Texas. He studied art at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of 'Owner' (2016), 'Kerala Journal' (2021), and the chapbooks 'Far Towns' (2006), 'Ground' (2016), and 'the color of milk tea' (2019). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Otata, Reliquiae, Poetry at Sangam, as well as in the anthology 'Haiku World: an International Poetry Almanac' (1996). He resides in Kerala, India.

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