Title
Cosmophilia,Used
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What earthly use is the love of ornament? Slowing down to look closely at an inherited shawl made by hand, the title poem in Rahat Kurds Cosmophilia traces an object of luxury to the traditionally male art of Kashmiri shawl embroidery. The poet works with images from Kashmir, her maternal familys place of origin, where the ability to make and appreciate beautiful things is both absolutely essential and taken for granted; where increasingly rare levels of artistic mastery are simultaneously prized and trivialized; where the struggle to carry on traditional art forms is strained by awareness of increasing obsolescence, severe political repression, and environmental degradation; a place both celebrated and dismissed as spectacle, as paradise on earth.The question persists, throughout other poems in Cosmophilia, both as selfreflexive creative practice and existential dilemma. On the concrete streets of Vancouver, the anonymity and material ease of cities tug at the poets consciousness of frayed traditional ideals, both philosophical and aesthetic. Religious language and rituals considered in the aftermath of a marriage take on complex, subversive, and irreverent layers in a sevenpoem sequence. Allusive, playful multilingual imagery inhabits long narrative meditations, freeform couplets, and the traditional ghazal, in elegiac or sharply satirical moods. Nastaliq, a centuriesold form of Persian and Urdu calligraphy, speaks to the author through the smokedamaged voice of a fading celebrity confessional.The emotionally powerful collection follows the elaborate, unexpected turns of the poets imagination, enlisting intricate details of memory and language and the occasional plain truth the hard solitude of the maker. They intertwine political conflict and family history; they imagine Hamlet reluctantly confronting the partition of India and Pakistan. Cosmophilia translates multiple glittering facets of Muslim culture into, and reflects back from, the immediacy of embodied, urban Canadian experience.
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