Mitra Samal’s collection reads like a paradox coming alive… to trace a bond, a link across conflicting emotions, to discover a connection between opposites, a pattern in shambles, and a poise in disbalance.
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The Art of Unboxing is a debut collection of poems drawn from a decade of reading, writing and reviewing poetry. The poems move beyond the visible world to explore deeper questions of life, identity, and existence.
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Deepthi Arun Kumar — Excerpt: We admit, / doctors are gross, / inventive but disgusting. / We’d have it no other way.
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Lena Hadley — Excerpt: But you’ve overtaken / My criminal wishes / Now I adorn all my threats / With love hearts and kisses
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Chitra Kalyani — Excerpt: A series of poems trace the body—breasts and spine, eye and tooth—reconciling it with its nature: physical, biological, mortal.
