Full Disclosure English 2017

Here is a book worth celebrating : Manohar Shetty's Full Disclosure: New and Collected Poems (1981-2017), which gathers more than thirty years of work from a major voice in world Anglophone poetry. More accurately, this book presents a range of voices - in some of the multi-sectioned poems, a choir - as Shetty writes through a variety of personae and perspectives, delivering emotionally resonant deep imagery and intellectual precision, profound compassion and ironic wit, in equal parts. In Shetty's work the natural world impinges on domestic life at every turn, creating an environment transformed through contact as well as the poet's observation: a spider becomes 'a yoyo,/A jiggling asterisk: a footnote:' and even on the bookshelves silverfish 'burrow in flaking tomes'.