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Imtiaz Dharker. The Terrorist at My Table, illustrated by the author. Tarset, Northumberland, United Kingdom. Bloodaxe (Dufour, distr.). 2006. 158 pages. £8.95/$22.95. ISBN 1-85224735-5
IN HER FOURTH COLLECTION of poems published by Bloodaxe Books, Pakistani British poet Imtiaz Dharker reflects on some of the salient themes of lyric poetry: the self in identity flux, migration, travel, time, women and men, politics, particularly politics. Many of these selections directly respond to the fallout of the 2001 World Trade Center bombings for the Islamic community, in particular, and humanity at large. The title poem, for instance, is a bold identification with the Palestinian conflict, a surprising move in a South Asian poet. "Knowledge is something you can choose / to give away, / but giving and taking leave a...