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When I Reach for Your Pulse

When I Reach for Your Pulse

Vyas, Rushi

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Series: Stahlecker Selections

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1954245548
ISBN13: 9781954245549
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Mar 15 2023
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

In this electrifying debut, lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent's suicide. When my father finally / died, Vyas writes, we [...] burned, / like an effigy, the voiceless body. Grief returns us to elemental silence, where the wind is a muted vowel in the brush of pine / branches across American landscapes. These poems extend formal experimentation, caesurae, and enjambment to reach into the emptiness and fractures that remain. This language listens as much as it sings, asking: can we recover from the muting effects of British colonialism, American imperialism, patriarchy, and caste hierarchies? Which cultural legacies do we release in order to heal? Which do we keep alive, and which keep us alive? A monument to yesterday and a missive to tomorrow, When I Reach for Your Pulse reminds us of both the burden and the promise of inheritance. [T]he wail outlasts / the dream, but time falls like water and so the stream survives its source.

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