{"product_id":"9780143061854","title":"Vanishing Acts","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a poetry collection for adults that threads historical breadth with intimate voice. Its central aim is to explore how memory, language, and identity travel across borders, and how emigrant and survivor experiences shape the self. The tone is contemplative, lyrical, and poised, inviting readers who value thoughtful, language-rich poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume gathers poems from multiple earlier collections alongside substantial new work, creating a cohesive arc. It experiments with a varied formal palette—from canticle and cycle to adapted sonnet and expressive apostrophe—while keeping the emotional core accessible. The poems dwell on emigrants, fugitives, interpreters, and survivors who walk the fragile border between permanence and transience, voice and silence, memory and language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading unfolds through formal daring and vivid imagery, delivering a distinctive rhythm that rewards careful attention. The language remains lucid and emotionally resonant as it moves between epic breadth and intimate confession, inviting readers to reflect on how memory travels across time and place and how belonging is formed in crossing borders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA curated sequence of poems drawn from earlier collections plus new pieces, exploring migration, memory, language, and identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormal variety that includes canticle, cycle, adapted sonnet, and apostrophe, creating a dynamic reading experience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLyric, precise imagery and a restrained, musical voice that balances epic scope with intimate reflection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReading that invites active engagement with themes of displacement, belonging, and the mutability of self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaders finish with a broadened perspective on movement and memory, a deeper empathy for voices shaped by exile, and a reinforced sense that language can bridge worlds. The collection lingers, inspiring curiosity about how history and personal experience intersect in the daily act of reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crossword.in","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48540427256025,"sku":"9780143061854","price":285.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/3066\/9017\/files\/61RcVYMOoqL._SL1400.jpg?v=1776679754","url":"https:\/\/www.crossword.in\/products\/9780143061854","provider":"Crossword.in ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}