TY - GEN AU - Murugan, Perumal AU - Vasudevan, Aniruddhan TI - Songs of a Coward: Poems of Exile SN - 9780143428824 U1 - 821 MUR PY - 2017/// CY - Gurugram PB - Penguin Random House India KW - Poetry N2 - A king decrees that all humans be skinned alive. A man runs from words that hound him like a pack of wolves. A legion of white snakes sweeps across a land blighted by drought. A beleaguered soul laments the loss of a homeland. A coward's many virtues are lauded to disturbing effect. By turns passionate, elegiac, angry, tender, nightmarish and courageous, the poems in Songs of a Coward weave an exquisite tapestry of rich images and turbulent emotions. Written during a period of immense personal turmoil, these verses are an enduring testament to the resilience of an imagination under siege and the liberating power of words in one's darkest moments ER -