Miracle Marks: Poems
Purvi Shah
(Author)
Product Details
Price
$18.95
Publisher
Curbstone Press
Publish Date
June 15, 2019
Pages
96
Dimensions
6.0 X 0.3 X 8.3 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780810140387
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About the Author
PURVI SHAH inspires change as a nonprofit consultant and writer. During the tenth anniversary of 9/11, she directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project to highlight Asian American voices and experiences. Her first poetry collection, Terrain Tracks, won the Many Voices Project prize, and her chaplet, Dark Lip of the Beloved: Sound Your Fiery God-Praise, explores women and being. She currently serves as a board member of The Poetry Project in New York. Her favorite art practices are her sparkly eyeshadow and raucous laughter.
Reviews
"Beautifully and evocatively written, with themes of femininity, love, longing, and playfulness woven throughout the entire collection. Also quite timely, given the #MeToo movement and Shah's call to celebrate feminine strength. Haunting and vivid." --Anita Anantharam, author of Bodies That Remember: Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism in South Asian Poetry
"Her newest book, Miracle Marks, continues Purvi Shah's critique and celebration of her home culture and as an immigrant focusing on gender, spirituality, sexuality. The quotidian and the transformative meet in Shah's work as she seeks to bring feminine power, feminisms to bear in a world so closed to women's power, to the miraculous. Purvi Shah's language invents something important -- a woman's voice speaking her own power." --Patricia Spears Jones, author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems
"Miracle Marks is an open blaze of music and reincarnation. In Miracle Marks, we travel. Stations both mortal and immortal propel us through a collective time, a troubled and troubling now in which the spiritual and the sensual share one marked body." --Sun Yung Shin, author of Unbearable Splendor
"Her newest book, Miracle Marks, continues Purvi Shah's critique and celebration of her home culture and as an immigrant focusing on gender, spirituality, sexuality. The quotidian and the transformative meet in Shah's work as she seeks to bring feminine power, feminisms to bear in a world so closed to women's power, to the miraculous. Purvi Shah's language invents something important -- a woman's voice speaking her own power." --Patricia Spears Jones, author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems
"Miracle Marks is an open blaze of music and reincarnation. In Miracle Marks, we travel. Stations both mortal and immortal propel us through a collective time, a troubled and troubling now in which the spiritual and the sensual share one marked body." --Sun Yung Shin, author of Unbearable Splendor
