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A God at the Door.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doshi, Tishani.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (107 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Bloodaxe Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. These poems, taken together, traverse history, from the cosmic to the everyday. There is a playful spikiness to be found in poems like 'Why the Brazilian Butt Lift Won't Save Us', while others, such as 'I Found a Village and in it Were All Our Missing Women', are fed by rage. As the collection unfolds, there are gem-like poems such as 'I Carry My Uterus in a Small Suitcase' which sparkles on the page with impeccable precision. Later, there are the sharp shocks delivered by two mirrored poems set side by side, 'Microeconomics' and 'Macroeconomics'.Tishani Doshi's poetry deploys beauty to heal trauma, enabling the voices of the oppressed to be heard with piercing clarity. From flightless birds and witches, to black holes and Marilyn Monroe, A God at the Door illuminates with lines and images that surprise, inflame and dazzle.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Mandala
- Pilgrimage
- Creation Abecedarian
- The Stormtroopers of My Country
- My Loneliness Is Not the Same as Your Loneliness
- A Blue Mormon Finds Herself Among Common Emigrants
- Why the Brazilian Butt Lift Won't Save Us
- Every Unbearable Thing
- Advice for Pliny the Elder, Big Daddy of Mansplainers
- Roots
- In a Dream I Give Birth to a Sumo Wrestler
- Instructions on Surviving Genocide
- The Comeback of Speedos
- Face Exercises for Marionette Lines
- I Found a Village and in it Were All our Missing Women
- Contagion
- Tree of Life
- Homage to the Square
- I Don't Want to be Remembered by My Last Instagram Post
- Everyone Has a Wilting Point
- Tigress Hugs Manchurian Fir
- Poems Lull Us Into Safety
- After a Shooting at a Maternity Clinic in Kabul
- They Killed Cows. I Killed Them.
- Cell
- Self
- Collective
- Nation
- Species
- Cosmos
- The Coronapocalypse Will Be Televised
- Variations on Hippo
- A Dress is Like a Field
- Postcard to My Mother-in-Law Who at 16 is Chasing Brigitte Bardot in St Tropez
- Together
- Many Good &
- Wonderful Things
- I Carry My Uterus in a Small Suitcase
- Bacterium
- A Possible Explanation as to Why We Mutilate Women &
- Trees, which Tries to End on a Note of Hope
- What Mr Frog Running Away from Marilyn Monroe Taught Me About #MeToo
- Tiger Woman
- We Will Not Kill You. We'll Just Shoot You in the Vagina.
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- This May Reach You Either as a Bird or Flower
- Petard
- Rotten Grief.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Forward Poetry Prize (nominated), 2020 GBR
- ISBN:
- 9781780375762
- 178037576X
- OCLC:
- 1245663237
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