Boldly playful, ingenious, associative and mercurial,Sampurna Chattarji s poems careen through varied terrain, geographic and linguistic, in a dizzy journey of defamiliarization, as the alien protagonist, Space Gulliver, extends and challenges habitual ideas of what constitutes the mundane.Here is a book that blends intellectual enquiry, a taste for whimsy and the love of language into challenging and audacious poetry