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      • KANOA Verlag

        KANOA-Verlag, Schweiz: Förderung des kulturellen Austauschs mit Lateinamerika und seinen Autoren im Bereich Literatur. Veröffentlichung von Belletristik in spanischer Sprache und deren Übersetzung ins Deutsche und Englische. In Zusammenarbeit mit Verlagen in Europa, Verbreitungsplattformen und Kultureinrichtungen fördern wir lateinamerikanische Autoren und ihre Werke, um ein Lesepublikum entsprechend ihren Ansprüchen zu erreichen. Editorial KANOA, Suiza: Promoción de intercambio cultural con América Latina y sus autores en el campo de la literatura. Publicación en español de textos de ficción y su traducción al alemán e inglés. En cooperación con otras editoriales, plataformas de difusión y entidades culturales, promovemos autores latinoamericanos y sus obras para alcanzar un público lector de acuerdo a sus exigencias. KANOA publishing house, Switzerland: we promote a cultural exchange with Latin America and its authors in the field of literature. Publishing is focused on the publication of fiction in Spanish and its translation into German and English. In cooperation with publishers in Europe, diffusion platforms and cultural entities, we promote Latin American authors and their works in order to reach a reading public according to their demands.

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      • Kanki Publishing

        KankiPublishing publishes books in business, economics, management, self-development, daily life knowledge and skills, humanities and linguistics, while pursuing originality based on the motto: “Convince, Satisfy and Fascinate Our Readers”.

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      • Poetry
        June 2021

        Tanpura's Strum

        A Collection of Haiku, Tanka, and Micropoems

        by Jesal Kanani

        Jesal has always been drawn to making beautiful connections with seemingly disparate ideas. She's been able to draw out the juxtaposition of two unrelated images in a haiku, giving birth to a new meaning, which combines two distinct thoughts into one. If we look at urban existence – its natural state of being is fraught with dissonance: the push and pull of expectations, the contradictions within roles, but Jesal sees connections and synergy with this seeming contradiction thru the haiku and tanka  which reach out as perfect forms to Jesal, to express this state of modern living.   Both — arising out of and also nestled within, this constant churn and thrum of life are nectar-like moments that make us feel most alive, impassioned, at other times crushingly human. This poetry is an attempt to catch those pearls of consciousness, those moments that float up to the surface above the rough raw tumble of the day. Maybe it is the ordinary, that when looked at with repose, reflection transmutes into something extraordinary? The tanka’s brevity: a click, ka—snick! is a snapshot in words. A wide ranging collage, from motherhood, heartbreak, loss, love, to the tangible: vegetables, beaches, forests and salons, is put together in this collection through these textual snapshots. Read together, they aim to paint a dense picture of urban life of women, as they grapple with successfully navigating the world.    By saying little, sharing just the silhouettes of an image, Jesal's haiku and tanka, invite the readers to color in the rest with their own experiences and imagination, thereby making these poetic forms unusually relatable. I hope the grace and beauty of these ancient forms of poetry find resonance with you and readers through this modern, relatable and excellent rendition, by Jesal.

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