{"title":"Sumita Chakraborty","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"arrow-book-sumita-chakraborty-9781948579117","title":"Arrow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContemplative poems write a contentious love letter to a flawed world. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArrow\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary-philosophical exploration of the unknown and the unpredictability of life. Poems brim with introspection as they challenge gender- and race-based violence, ecological devastation, grief, and mourning, while simultaneously also full of ecstatic and scholarly curiosity about humanity's paradoxical tendencies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis powerful and endlessly mysterious collection of poems is a book of fables, of spells, of revised narratives, and of realigned songs, brightly lifted above our bodies by music that is as unpredictable as it is marvelous. The lyricism is everywhere apparent as Sumita Chakraborty addresses us, our bodies and their stories, our planet, and our sense of time itself. . . . All one can do is repeat: this is an endlessly compelling book. Bravo.--\u003cstrong\u003eIlya Kaminsky, author of \u003cem\u003eDeaf Republic \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSumita Chakraborty\u003c\/strong\u003e a poet, public critic, and scholar who is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Emory University. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, the American Poetry Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Cultural Critique, and elsewhere; she is poetry editor of AGNI and art editor of At Length. In 2017, she received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and in 2018, she was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. Her first book of poems, Arrow, is forthcoming in September 2020 from Alice James Books in the U.S. and Carcanet Press in the U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625252036881,"sku":"GOR013240652","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49893767315729,"sku":"CIN1948579111VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402605826321,"sku":"CIN1948579111G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51383959126289,"sku":"NIN9781948579117","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51777985937681,"sku":"GOR014400633","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1948579111.jpg?v=1780480231"},{"product_id":"arrow-book-sumita-chakraborty-9781784109929","title":"Arrow","description":"Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021. Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. Arrow is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is 'Dear, beloved', a more-than-elegy for her younger sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the poem, much else came into play: 'it was my hope to write the mood of elegy rather than an elegy proper,' following the example of the great elegists including Milton, to whose Paradise Lost she listened during the period of composition, also hearing the strains of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's Song, of Alice Oswald and Marie Howe. The poem becomes a kind of kingdom, 'one that is at once evil, or blighted, and beautiful, not to mention everything in between'.   As well as elegy, Chakraborty composes invocations, verse essays, and the strange extended miracle of the title poem, in which ancient and modern history, memory and the lived moment, are held in a directed balance. It celebrates the natural forces of the world and the rapt experience of balance, form and - love. She declares a marked admiration for poems that 'will write into being a world that already in some way exists'. This is what her poems achieve.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51320694014225,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51320694604049,"sku":"NGR9781784109929","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51938989179153,"sku":"GOR010896599","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784109924.jpg?v=1756707631"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-sumita-chakraborty.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}