ONLY FLYING by Brook Bhagat
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Only Flying is a collection of surreal free verse and prose poetry that celebrates transformation and paradox, exploring both the silence of the seeker and the outrageous wilderness of the imagination. Thematic threads like rebellion, enlightenment, risk, courage, love, loss, and triumph dance to life with pictures that swing from dark to light, surreal to whimsical, and strange to familiar. There are intimate goddesses here, black widows, buddhas, alley cats, a kangaroo, and magic pants—blacklight-blue Hendrix flares that hang from a fire escape, just waiting for the right person to jump up and steal them. That person is you.
Book Details
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-950730-83-4
Publication Date: Nov. 16, 2021
Book Details
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 978-1-950730-83-4
Publication Date: Nov. 16, 2021
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Advance Praise
In this intimate collection of interwoven poetry and prose, the magical and the mundane coexist in an exploration of personal transformation. Brook Bhagat creates a sensory experience threaded with longing and loss. At the same time, she effortlessly emphasizes the beauty of small things, echoes of ephemeral moments made up of salt and stars, feathers and eggshells. The poet turns inwards in her exploration, folds up like a paper tiger, only to then reemerge transcendent and renewed, unshackled from the gravity of false expectations and desires. In a dizzying dance of imagery and light, Bhagat’s lyricism creates a sense of remembering, a reckoning released on the wings of a wish.
Carina Bissett, award-winning writer and co-editor of Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas.