Where I Live: New & Selected Poems

Description: "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 ... (more)

Manufacturer: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Release date: 10 February 2009
ISBN-10 : 1852248246 | ISBN-13: 9781852248246

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