Women in the Waiting Room
Kirun Kapur
(Author)
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Description
" In astonishing lyrics that give us more than intimate negotiations of memory, the poems in Women in the Waiting Room work an entrancing weave of Hindu mythology, ravishing songs, and the language of crisis hotlines as a means of limning the fate of women's bodies and psychological distress. If O' Hara's " Personism" figures a poem as a telephone call then Kapur's wondrous lines serve to heal, like all poignant and meaningful human to human exchanges: interventionist language that disrupts easy sanctuaries of meaning yet consoling in its artfulness. I call this life on the page, one you'll be happy to encounter." --Major Jackson " Women in the Waiting Room [is] a bold and bombastic assertion, a must-read for these times and beyond." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Black Lawrence Press
Publish Date
October 01, 2020
Pages
92
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.3 X 0.3 inches | 0.22 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781625578235
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About the Author
Kirun Kapur is a poet, editor, teacher and translator. She is the author of three books of poetry, Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist (Elixir Press, 2015) which won the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize and the Antivenom Poetry Award, Women in the Waiting Room (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Poetry Series; and the chapbook All the Rivers in Paradise (UChicago Arts, 2022). Her work has appeared in AGNI, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares and many other journals. She serves as editor at the Beloit Poetry Journal, one of the nation's oldest poetry publications, and teaches at Amherst College, where she is director of the Creative Writing Program.
