The Parrot, the Horse and the Man

by Amarjit Chandan

The Parrot, the Horse & the Man , Amarjit Chandan's second full-length collection from Arc, is every bit as compelling and memorable as his first. Here is a poet who finds beauty in the ordinary, who is able to build images of the every day into universal concepts that inspire a sense of awe. There is also a silence in Chandan's poetry, or, as the poet Arundhathi Subramanian puts it, a deep sense of the unspoken... [where] words are precarious and makeshift signposts in a vast hinterland of memory. His poems reflect this varied experience and are enriched both by the heritage of classical Punjabi poetry and lyricism as well as by an awareness that is entirely global, a spirit that is homeless and rooted at the same time.

128 pages, Hardcover

Published June 30, 2017