The Taxidermist's Cut by Rajiv Mohabir

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The Taxidermist's Cut by Rajiv Mohabir

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The Taxidermist's Cut by Rajiv Mohabir

The Taxidermist's Cut is a collection that centers the pressures of being a queer brown youth awakening sexually in a racist, anti-immigrant matrix. As an Indo-Caribbean, the queer-countried speaker is illegible as an Indian as well as an American. Haunted by his migration narrative, the speaker tries to make himself fit into his environment by sloughing off his skin and stretching new ones over his body. At stake here is surviving a palimpsest of violence: violences enacted upon the speaker and violences the speaker enacts upon himself through cutting. Mohabir engages with the body and the land as a series of incisions and overlays to cover the damage of memory of a South Asian brown body dealing with aggressions and joys. This is a collection of twisted love stories-as-slits that exposes the meat and bone of trauma and relief. Drawing from outside source texts such as animal tracking guides and taxidermy manuals, these poems attempt to show the process of how to survive being erased on all fronts.

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ISBN 13 9781935536727
ISBN 10 1935536729
Title The Taxidermist's Cut
Author Rajiv Mohabir
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Four Way Books
Year published 2016-04-12
Number of pages 112
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.