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    612-822-4611

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Where I Live: New & Selected Poems

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems

Subramaniam, Arundhathi

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1852248246
ISBN13: 9781852248246
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Feb 26 2009
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Where I Live combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megalopolis, myth, the politics of culture and gender, and the persistent trope of the existential journey. They probe contradictory impulses: the desire for adventure and anchorage; expansion and containment; vulnerability and strength; freedom and belonging; withdrawal and engagement; and, an approach to language as exciting resource and desperate refuge. Her new poems are a meditation on desire - in which the sensual and sacred mingle inextricably. There is a fascination with the skins that separate self from other, self from self, thing from no-thing. These are poems of dark need, of urgency, of desire as derailment, and derailment as possibility.

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