In the opening lines of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella, The Metamorphosis, readers are confronted with one of the most jarring sentences in literary history: “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” With this matter-of-fact delivery, Kafka…
by Syed Kamil Poetry is exquisitely private, even when read by millions of readers, because it brings out the innermost workings of the human psyche. The book…
