Finding Chi (পেপারব্যাক)

No matter what their contexts are, no matter where they find themselves in the marching timeline, poets, like almost all creators, inhabit a parallel life. The layers they create with nebulous meaning can strike the reader dead, groping for the normal, the living, or the expected. But for some poets, "The gloom is at the door / Our season's at an end / We're out of time / Your eyes are out of water." In his struggle to convey the incommunicable, Rahul Haque tiptoes through fairy tales and fantasies, sometimes blurring the lines between what is and what could be; what makes mundane sense and what doesn't, despite the juxtaposition of the commonplace and the unexpected. In this startlingly fresh look at life, the reader "ooze through / With bread and butter / Into the daisies that run the kingdom." A kingdom of restless souls and lightly concealed guardins or Gods, masquerading as Dragons, the 'Chi' which you may or may not find. Finding Chi is Rahul Haque's first collection of poems. These pages may stay with you for a long time.