These elegant poems about the wondrous and subterranean career of fear move us in this ancient way, literally and figuratively--It is important for you to lose both/body and mind. Doshi promises to be “an immortal mosquito”, “humming in the dungeons” of our “auditory canals”, hastening us “towards fury”. Sumana Roy in MINT (READ THE REVIEW)
tishani doshi by carlo pizzati
AN INTERVIEW
WITH HELTER SKELTER MAGAZINE
"I think we all carry our identities quite heavily around with us, and I feel we should break them. I read somewhere that every seven years every cell in our body is replaced, so we essentially become new human beings, and even if it’s not true I like the idea of it, because while identity is important, it is also a kind of cage that fixes upon us." READ MORE
KARTHIKA NAIR SPEAKS TO TISHANI DOSHI ABOUT GIRLS ARE COMING OUT OF THE WOODS
"How do you write about violence without perpetuating it? What do you do with it? In the poem, Meeting Elizabeth Bishop in Madras, I’m thinking of the pain awaiting my teeth, of what it might be like to encounter Bishop there, of her poem, In The Waiting Room, and her contention that pain connects us. A greater violence would be a disconnect. To not feel someone else’s suffering. And this is where poetry enters, and dance and film." READ MORE
"How do you write about violence without perpetuating it? What do you do with it? In the poem, Meeting Elizabeth Bishop in Madras, I’m thinking of the pain awaiting my teeth, of what it might be like to encounter Bishop there, of her poem, In The Waiting Room, and her contention that pain connects us. A greater violence would be a disconnect. To not feel someone else’s suffering. And this is where poetry enters, and dance and film." READ MORE
Tishani Doshi by Peter Akeson
INTERVIEW
WITH
DESI LOUNGE
"You cannot live life in nonstop crescendo. You will stagger and fall. At least for me, it’s in the movement from slow to fast that life is lived, that books are written." READ MORE
WITH
DESI LOUNGE
"You cannot live life in nonstop crescendo. You will stagger and fall. At least for me, it’s in the movement from slow to fast that life is lived, that books are written." READ MORE
GIRL IN A BOX
PORTRAITS BY RICCARDO CAVALLARI
PORTRAITS BY RICCARDO CAVALLARI
