Kavishala is going behind the scenes to uncover the inspirations and secrets of Abhay K's new release The Alphabets of Latin America's image
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Kavishala is going behind the scenes to uncover the inspirations and secrets of Abhay K's new release The Alphabets of Latin America

Kavishala LabsKavishala Labs July 25, 2020
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In an interview with Kavishala, author and Poet Abhay K spills the beans on his latest release, The Alphabets of Latin America, what brought him to Poetry, Earth Anthem and his inspiration in life. Book is Available on Amazon!

Here you can read our Past discussion with Abhay K.

Kavishala is going behind the scenes to uncover the inspirations and secrets of Abhay K's new release The Alphabets of Latin America:

Kavishala: Tell us about your latest book The Alphabets of Latin America

Abhay K. Organized alphabetically from A-Z and published by Bloomsbury India, the poems written between 2016-2019 during my travels across Latin America, takes the reader on a roller coaster ride to one of the most culturally and geographically fascinating continents, known for its legendary Maya and Inca civilisation, sizzling Samba and Tango, the world's biggest carnivals, labyrinth of Borges, magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, great poetry of Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Cesare Vallejo, Octavio Paz, the fascinating art of Frida Kahlo and Fernando Botero, among others.

As one flips through its pages, one finds oneself swimming with pink dolphins in the Amazon river, watching the sunset in the Martian landscape of Atacama desert, kissing the heights of Machu Picchu and admiring a thousand rainbows at Iguazu Falls.


Kavishala: How were you inspired to write this book?

Abhay K. I was in love with the poetry of Neruda and Octavio Paz, and fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Machado de Assis among others. I was also fascinated by the beauty of Machu Picchu, Atacama Desert, Amazon forests, Rio de Janeiro among others and wanted to see these places with my own eyes and to write about them. I also wanted to understand the Latin American c

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