ASIN: B08F7YHVCD
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 60
There is an old saint, siting under theshadow of a palm treeHis wooden stick calmly resting on hisShoulderAnd with a smile on his face, he starts telling a tale’Imran Khan Bayo is from Pakistan. He, like me, does not have English as a native language. Like me, he had to hijack it and make it his own. It makes for a very personal style, which shows in his writing. His verses indeed are not about accentuation, phonology, or, even, meters. They are about images, and the more powerful the images the better. Content is, to him, more important than decorative features. That is not to say Imran Khan Bayo has no care for the language, or that he cannot dabble in traditional forms. He does, in fact, have a deep heartfelt passion for words, and, whether he ventures into traditional forms, or, get us lost into the realm of free expression, there is no denying his creativity and artful spark. Just ...
