Ashkari / Ludology by Tra Habibzadeh & Priyam Goswami Choudhury

ASHKARI / LUDOLOGY is a product of abundant conversations about loan words between Farsi and Hindi that took place between the poets and was overheard by the publisher. Some poems in Ashkari are written in Farsi. The titles were handwritten by the authors in Farsi and Assamese script.

The chapbook is the first publishing project of Farangi. Farangi Triptych stands for intellectual brothers abroad - speaking, writing, and thinking in Farsi, Hindi, Marathi, German, English, and Icelandic. We are interested in the materialities of poetic cultures and the hybrid frameworks of the body of the text – both a literal body that is to be situated in culture and the poetic text. We retrieve the spillage from mistranslations of ideas from “East” to “West.”

This poetry chapbook is bound as two books in one with two front covers, dos-à-dos style. Risoprinted and pamphlet stitched with golden yellow thread in an edition of 50.

published by Cutt Press
2024, English, German, Arabic languages, 36 pages, 15 x 21 cm