It’s the language itself that does the trick—Shankar has a marvelous way of getting sound and phrasing to say both something and themselves.

Mar 3

Written By Stephanie

Stephanie www.supergrace.ch

Ravi Shankar is a postmodern flâneur. He wanders the world’s real and fictional gridded cities (or perhaps his astral body swoops high above them) and reports back.

What the poets share is a delicate balancing act between a respect for centuries of tradition and the breakneck speed of modern society.