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When she feeds streams of “official” language – from Supreme Court opinions to the procedural chatter of Predator drone pilots – through the filter of her poetic investigations

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After Lamia Makaddam I myself thought that owlsVivek Narayanan After is a collection of poems inspired by Valmikis Ramayana, one of Asias foundational epic poems and a story cycle of incalculable historical importance. But After does not just come after the Ramayana. On each successive page, Vivek Narayanan brings the resources of contemporary English poetry to bear on the Sanskrit epic. In a work that warrants comparison with Christopher Logues and Alice Oswalds reshapings of Homer, and Anne