Nepal, Aug. 30 -- We are often trapped in our multiple, warring selves. Which one should we choose? Which is more authentic? Acceptable? More beautiful? Or more divine? These are some of the conundrums that many of us inwardly wrestle with.

In his third poetry collection, 'And I Blamed Canadian Winter Again', Nepal-born poet Arun Budhathoki, now living in Canada, also confesses to being "constantly haunted by self-doubt" when transforming strong emotions of his diasporic life into poetry. However, he surpasses his "infirmities" when inspired by his poetic muses. This is all evident in the book, which presents dreamlike visions of transcultural existentiality and features unique flavours in place-and memory-based poetry, emphasising conte...