Treasurer of Piggy Banks The Descent of Alette zoals mijn moeder tot haar

zoals mijn moeder tot haar navel

discomfiting lines

child and mother

before dropping that golden bombshell into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis

een plein of stad

Treasurer of Piggy Banks The Descent of Alette zoals mijn moeder tot haarVinod Kumar Shukla (trans. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) Infiltrator or inhabitant? In Treasurer of Piggy Banks, Shukla sees the world through both lenses at once. All details are local yet canonical. We are uprooted and yet everywhere roots are spreading far and wide. Shukla illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic and surreal clarity, from environmental collapse, to the way our own deaths are snug inside our lives. The poems are