Girls are coming out of the woods / Tishani Doshi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doshi, Tishani, 1975- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 99 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2017]

Summary:

"In her third poetry collection, Tishani Doshi confronts violence against women, lending her resonant, lyrical voice to those who have endured abuse, and those who have been permanently silenced. The poems are steeped in the heat and danger of tsunami season, honoring the dead by celebrating survival. Doshi writes with love and reverence for that which thrives against the odds-- female desire, the power of refusal, and the aging body. Doshi reminds us that poetry, at its root, is song. In their praise and lament, ebbing and hopeful, these poems call out for truth and redemption"--Back cover.

Contents:

Contract p. 3

Summer in Madras p. 7

Rain at Three p. 8

A Fable for the 21st Century p. 9

What the Sea Brought In p. 11

How to be Happy in 101 Days p. 13

Fear Management p. 16

Everyone Loves a Dead Girl p. 18

Monsoon Poem p. 20

Ode to Patrick Swayze p. 23

Abandon p. 27

To My First White Hairs p. 28

Considering Motherhood While Falling Off a Ladder in Rome p. 32

Love in the Time of Autolysis p. 34

Jungian Postcard p. 36

Girls are Coming Out of the Woods p. 38

Strong Men, Riding Horses p. 40

Disco Biscuits p. 42

Honesty Hotel for Gents p. 44

My Grandmother Never Ate a Potato in Her Life p. 46

Your Body Language Is Not Indian! or Where I Am Snubbed at a Cocktail Party by a Bharatnatyam Dancer p. 49

Saturday on the Scores p. 52

The Women of the Shin Yang Park Sauna, Gwangju p. 54

Tranås p. 56

Encounters with a Swedish Burglar p. 57

Pig-Killing in Viet Hai p. 58

Calcutta Canzone p. 61

Understanding My Fate in a Mexican Museum p. 64

Dinner Conversations p. 66

The Leather of Love p. 68

O Great Beauties! p. 73

Clumps of Happiness p. 76

Meeting Elizabeth Bishop in Madras p. 77

Grandmothers Abroad p. 80

Poem for a Dead Dog p. 82

Find the Poets p. 84

The Day Night Died p. 87

Coastal Life p. 89

The View from Inside My Coffin p. 91

Portrait of the Poet as a Reclining God p. 94.

Notes:

First published in hardback in India in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers India.

ISBN:

9781556595516

1556595514

9781556595509

1556595506

OCLC:

1022980820