These evocative and complexly intriguing poems suggest a variety of modern issues. Combining the real with the imaginary, the logical with the intuitive, the mystical and the mythical, and both oral and written traditions, they bring together different geographical, temporal, and cultural spaces to explore spiritual alienation and the nature of being, and the power of language both to liberate and to oppress.
Wearing glasses of water . . . refers to suffering and the very act of crying. This suffering comes across in different ways: the suffering of the poetic self, the loss of loved ones, the witnessing of exploitation of humans by humans, animals by humans . . . from a statement by the author.