A collection of poems by the internationally known psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar, After Landing takes one on an emotional journey that is simultaneously soothing and exciting. Akhtar's voice is gentle but persuasive and his metaphors fresh and tingling to our senses. Matters of love and sex, life and death, friendship and inner decay, hope and sleepless pessimism are all handled with equanimity, lyricism, and fearless grace. The psychoanalyst and the poet exchange places constantly in a striking oscillation of language and musicality.