{"product_id":"the-flayed-city-paperback","title":"The Flayed City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHari Alluri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHari Alluri has been described by US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera as a writer who \"carries a new, quiet brush of multi-currents, of multi-worlds to paint this holographic life-scape.\" In \u003cem\u003eThe Flayed City\u003c\/em\u003e, he offers an intimate look into the lives of city dwellers and immigrants in a collection of charged poems that sweep together \"an archipelago song\" scored by memory and landscape, history and mythology, desire and loss. 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.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Flayed City\u003c\/em\u003e offers a powerful glimpse into a secondary world whose cities, cultural histories and trajectories are hybrids or \"immigrated\" versions of this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Diego-based poet and teacher \u003cstrong\u003eHari Alluri\u003c\/strong\u003e is the cofounder of Locked Horn Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53679962915123,"sku":"9781885030474","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/zCvKNCo0Id9781885030474.webp?v=1784406240","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-flayed-city-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}