valerie reviewed Rain Incarnations by Bishnu Mohapatra
rain!! yay!!
3 stars
it's fine. the description hypes it up way too much for essentially just being a compendium of short poems about rain, and the translation should not have been praised so extensively, even if it would have been ostensibly difficult, since the original material is lacking in the substance that would have necessitated such a methodical transformation
this book is also completely unknown to goodreads, which made looking for anything about this book an absolute joy(!)
the only article about the book online is a short review which somehow got published by Frontline, so ???
also the book has the gall to quote early wittgenstein and imply a failing of his philosophical capability on the empty space and i'm not sure what that intends to do or critique considering wittgenstein and everyone of his successors or followers had stopped believing that for decades