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.
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Alka Balain — Excerpt: The Hour of God opens with a sacred invocation to wholeness from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and this invocation sets the tone of the collection.
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Poetry doesn’t wait for life—it was right there with me, battling alongside me through a tenuous and vulnerable time. And I’m grateful for that.
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Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad — Excerpt: Saraswati’s debut collection introduces a distinct sensibility that glides smoothly between the personal and the mythic, giving adequate scale and weight to both dimensions.
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