Treasurer of Piggy Banks The Descent of Alette before dropping that golden bombshell

before dropping that golden bombshell into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis

and republished Leaves of Grass

Kun je dat blootleggen

discomfiting lines

zoals mijn moeder tot haar navel

Treasurer of Piggy Banks The Descent of Alette before dropping that golden bombshellVinod Kumar Shukla (trans. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) Infiltrator or inhabitant? In Treasurer of Piggy Banks, Shukla sees the world through both lenses at once. All details are local yet canonical. We are uprooted and yet everywhere roots are spreading far and wide. Shukla illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic and surreal clarity, from environmental collapse, to the way our own deaths are snug inside our lives. The poems are