Naveen Kishore's 'Ode to a Grieving Angel' Chronicles Language Dissolution

A poet named Naveen Kishore wrote a new book of poems called 'Ode to a Grieving Angel.'

The book shows a sad world filled with war, censorship and state violence.

In this world, people are punished without a fair trial and sprayed with water cannons.

The poems are written in a broken, jagged way to show that words are losing their meaning.

The book feels like a play, with stage directions and a special ending called a Coda.

It even includes famous characters, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, Macbeth and King Lear.

Kishore used to design theatre lights and take photographs, so his poems feel like scenes on a stage.

In the book, letters become like fugitives that have come loose from their usual places.

It is about a poet trying to write a eulogy for a world where language is falling apart.