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Meena Kandasamy
MEENA KANDASAMY is a poet, novelist and translator. Her latest books are a translation of the love poetry of 2000-year-old Tamil classic Tirukkural (THE BOOK OF DESIRE) and her own poetry collection, TOMORROW SOMEONE WILL ARREST YOU, which is forthcoming with Atlantic Books in May 2023.

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Three Poems

Poetry

February 2023

Meena Kandasamy

Poetry

February 2023

VISA GODS   In this story, Eurydice is dark & deadly & has lived all her life in Hades. In this story, Orpheus plays...
The Orders Were to Rape You

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Issue No. 28

Meena Kandasamy

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Issue No. 28

THE TRAITOR WHO IS THE WRITER   This is an essay about writing and trauma.   This is an essay about violence: of men,...

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February 2015

Greece and the Poetics of Crisis

Joshua Barley

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February 2015

On the Aegean island of Skyros, in the Carnival period immediately preceding Lent, a more ancient ritual takes place....

Art

July 2014

(holes)

Alice Hattrick

Kristina Buch

Art

July 2014

There are many ways to make sense of the world, through language, speech and text, but also the senses...

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April 2017

Everywhere and Nowhere

Vahni Capildeo

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April 2017

Part of my reluctance to write on citizenship is that as a poet, a worker in delicate, would-be-truthful language,...

 

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