{"product_id":"h9c4neb1l85f","title":"The Last Time I Saw You : Poems by Akhil Katyal [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A maverick you will adore' - GEETANJALI SHREE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAkhil Katyal's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Time I Saw You\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etells the story of how we encounter grief. It intimately lays out the poet's experience of an event of loss and its aftermath. Tracing the moments from when the abyss unexpectedly opens to the gradual resurgence of the ordinary, these poems resonate with both raw and deeply considered emotion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat helps him move on is the deciduous forest of memories surrounding him, and an unlikely cast of people (an eighteenth-century warrior-princess, Ustad Bismillah Khan, a nineteenth-century naturalist, a mediaeval saint), animals (millipedes, bats, blue bulls) and objects (quartzite, pigeon feathers, envelopes). In the backdrop is a metropolis grappling with an unprecedented illness, the involuntary migration of its inhabitants, and the harrowing effects of a communal pogrom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith each word and line carefully poised and suffused with the spirit of human resilience, the poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Time I Saw You\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewill linger with you long after you have read them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48327922712826,"sku":"H9C4NEB1L85F","price":279.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/H9C4NEB1L85F-1.jpg?v=1730222307","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/h9c4neb1l85f","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}