Anindita Sengupta
@Anu_Sengupta
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Author of ONLY THE FOREST KNOWS and WALK LIKE MONSTERS (Paperwall), CITY OF WATER (S. Akademi). @lilithblues.bsky.soc. Instagram: @onlytheforestknows
Joined April 2009
Sharing so I can pin this post, especially since I haven't done much for it since it was published! My last book is available at this link and there is international shipping to most countries, I think: https://t.co/Gi4M1D1rSG
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Today’s poem is selected by Nick Martino as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Scheherazade” appeared in Crush by Richard Siken, published by Yale University Press, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Happy December! Poets with a poem or book out August-December, please reply with the title, pub date, publisher, and link. ❤️
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Linda Pastan. From: Carnival Evening – New & Selected Poems 1968–1998 (Norton, 1999).
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The Editors of Cable Street created a lovely vispo (left) which contains an excerpt from my poem, ;Slipping Towards Dawn (Manhattan)', one of 3. On the right a photo image "between two eras" (2019/2024) which captures a ghostly mood of my many years in NYC. Do read Cable Street!
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“Indeed, the Book is destined to become debris, an erratic ruin; it’s like a sugar cube dissolving in water: some bits sink, others remain upright, erect, crystalline, pure, and brilliant. This is what’s called a karst relief (in geography).” — Roland Barthes (tr. Kate Briggs)
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My poem, HUNGER, was nominated for Best of the Net by Trampoline Poetry. Here are two of my poems they published. You have to scroll down to the second poet to find me. https://t.co/Zs5vWtyUkg
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My dear friend Najwan Darwish has a book of selected poems out collecting his monumental work, new and old: No One Will Know You Tomorrow, 2014-2024, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Published by @yalepress -- run, don't walk, to get it 💜
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Fernando Pessoa: “Man is unable to see his own face. This is what is more terrible: Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it just as he is unable to stare at his own eyes. Only in the waters of rivers and lakes could he stare at his face. And the position itself [+]
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"Eros is in between."
“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.” ― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
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“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.” ― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
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I love the version she does on the piano a bit more, I think.
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Mahmoud Darwish ~ "[Poetry] distorts. It has the power to transform the unreal into the real, and the real into the imaginary ... I once said that I built with words a homeland for my nation and for myself."
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Obsessed! Especially with Hawaiian Oslo at the 1.08 mark. Hania Rani live at Invalides in Paris, France for Cercle https://t.co/ByJyIFRZJC via @YouTube
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People say, “I’m not interested in your niche passion.” I think it’s beautiful that there are folks willing to study the world in all its complexity and strangeness. A fascination with things is a kind of love. “Don’t you think they’re the same thing, love and attention?”
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Tonight, someone, unable to see in one darkness, has shut his eyes to see another. Li-young Lee *The City in Which I Love You*
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