‘When angry, let the lungs speak poetry to the heart, with the brain in attendance as an audience of one’.
Che-beet Moi-kuut (paraphrased)
This is a
book about the author’s thoughts and memories. In an interesting length-based structure, Kap Kirwok has arranged his thoughts and memories into what he calls ‘short thoughts’, ‘shorter thoughts’, and ‘longer thoughts.’
In the ‘short thoughts’ part of the book, Kap summons his fleeing memory in poems that jump out of the page as ‘formations of nostalgic joy, pain and pure wonder’. The poems cover a wide range of topics about life – from the inner spaces of the mind to the wider canvas that is the universe.
In ‘shorter thoughts’ Kap Kirwok shares personal reflections and aphorisms as he invites us to reflect on the mundane and the mysterious; the boring and the profound. Above all, he wants us to reflect, with awe and amazement, on the intrigues and sheer audacity of the animal called Homo sapiens.
The ‘longer thoughts’ section is a collection of the author’s past opinion articles. In them, his mind rampages through different spaces – political, philosophical, social and scientific.
Here is a guarantee: every reader will find something exciting and enjoyable about Kap’s ‘thoughts’.
