The Kala Ghoda Poems Crawl is a poetry walkthrough of Arun Kolatkar's collection, Kala Ghoda Poems. I take people on a walk of the poet's city by visiting the characters, places, and stories mentioned in his poems. This experience is an enriching one, and urges us to listen to the poet's characters, and their many Bombays. The aim, ultimately, is to build a world map of 20th century poetry, akin to Arun Kolatkar’s Pi-dog from Kala Ghoda Poems who orchestrates a whole world to life: “As I play, / the city slowly reconstructs itself, / stone by numbered stone.”
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