An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in
these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans
three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain
and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are drawn
from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home,
displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She
is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are
illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her
books. The terrorist at my table asks crucial questions about how
we live now - working, travelling, eating, listening to the news,
preparing for attack. What do any of us know about the person who
shares this street, this house, this table, this body? When life is
in the hands of a fellow-traveller, a neighbour, a lover, son or
daughter, how does the world shift and reform itself around our
doubt, our belief? Imtiaz Dharker's poems and pictures hurtle
through a world that changes even as we pass. This is life seen
through distorting screens - a windscreen, a TV screen, newsprint,
mirror, water, breath, heat haze, smokescreen. Her book grows,
layer by layer, through three sequences: The terrorist at my table,
The habit of departure and Worldwide Rickshaw Ride. Each cuts a
different slice through the terrain of what we think of as normal.
But through all the uncertainties and concealments, her poems
unveil the delicate skin of love, trust and sudden recognition.
Imtiaz Dharker is an accomplished artist. Like all her collections,
The terrorist at my table is illustrated with her drawings, which
form an integral part of the book.
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