Where I Live by Arundhathi Subramaniam

by Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arundhathi Subramaniam's 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 the desire for adventure and anchorage; expansion and containment; vulnerability and strength; freedom and belonging; withdrawal and engagement; 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 afascination 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.

Genres: Poetry

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First published May 28, 2009

Reviews

[Swati Nain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Words that manage to be chiselled and languid at once. A delightful shock of poems.