Asylum
Jerry Pinto’s accomplished first book of poems travels
the breath-taking spaces between madness, luminosity and
quiet rebellion. Here, even paper has life of its own,
and that is just the beginning. The poems find themselves
set adrift in an asylum-seeker’s dilemma: the making
of hopeful sea voyages; the dangerous search for safe
havens; the lovely moments of slippage ‘of anchor
and sense and what love means’. This is a writer
who draws precise lines of control and then, with surprising
tenderness, crosses them.
- Imtiaz Dharker,
Author of Purdah, Postcards from God and I Speak For
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