Tabish Nawaz — Excerpt: The poems in the collection carve a path that leads us deep inside, searching within us a proverbial shelter. The presence of external, often teeming with natural elements, creates an opportunity for questioning our place in the space.
Basudhara Roy — Excerpt: A poem is read as much by the ear as by the eye. It establishes a relationship with the reader as much by defying as by conforming to poetic norms. Raychaudhuri’s poems stimulate both vision and sound.
Albert Abdul-Barr Wang — Excerpt: The cover photograph taken by the author herself provides a clue to the range of themes: self-portraiture, literary craft, formalism, the female body, whiteness in relation to post-feminist America, and natural landscapes versus constructed interiors.
Samiksha Ransom — Excerpt: In the quietness of my head / would a song break out?
Kiran Bhat — Excerpt: Agrawal has written many poetry collections before, but Eartha is the poet at her most coherent, focused, and piercing.