Bird of the Indian Subcontinent

By Subhashini Kaligotla

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Art. The poems in this debut collection chart the passage of a metamorphosing self through euphoria, desire, despair, defiance, equanimity, grief, and loneliness. Appropriating freely from diverse poetic sources, the writer gives voice to a polyglot emotional range. Sanskrit poetics, Jazz lyrics, ekphrasis, the locutions of India's poet-saints, and the Anglo-American writing tradition all find place here. The book's chorus of figures--from Christ to Krishna to Caravaggio--move the reader between present and past, myth and history, bird and human, and across cities and continents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986065250
• ISBN13: 9780986065255
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: (Great) Indian Poetry Collective
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.0"