Arrow

Contemplative poems write a contentious love letter to a flawed world. Arrow 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 "This 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."--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic Sumita Chakraborty 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.