Jun 16, 2019
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Happy father’s day. Wherever you are.
Scherezade Siobhan, The Bluest Kali (Lithic Press, 2018)
My second full length collection of poetry “The Bluest Kali” is now available for pre order via Lithic Press. Get a copy here.
Happy Reading!
In a language I am thawed from, a single word stands for both— tongue and language. Zubaan.
Scherezade Siobhan, from “The Mirror I won’t (The Bluest Kali, Lithic Press 2018)
Set to “stomp on the white playground of a page,” Scherezade Siobhan — writer, psychologist, and community catalyst — draws on Indian…
A very gorgeous and humbling review of “The Bluest Kali” by Ina Cariño published at Anomalous Press.
Your can pick up your copy of the book at SPD or at Lithic Press.
The lyric voice in The Bluest Kali continues the mystic tradition of writing in the vein of such poets as Emily Dickinson, Hafez, and Basho. As a “honeyed mongrel” who has “tried / to scheme [her]self into a quieter animal,” the speaker embodies the polyglottal person (56, 59). The Bluest Kali is fierce and rare in its deft navigation of the complexities of living in a linguistic house — a linguistic world — constantly being broken, repaired, and broken again. The speaker’s consistent refusal to be misinterpreted and reduced permeates the collection’s wild and inventive language. Yes, “some homes are like the brief pain of papercuts” — but, it is poems such as these that challenge and divert this pain, and are sorely needed by those who daily face implicit bias based on their otherness.
Ina Cariño reviews “The Bluest Kali” (Published at Anomalous Press)
“The Bluest Kali” is now available at SPD & Lithic Press
The Bluest Kali Poetry. Women's Studies. Cover Art by Ishita Basu Mallik. THE BLUEST KALI is a series of linguistic exoricisms through the corridors of a brown woman's clinical depression, dissociations and displacements that extend from psychological to spiritual exiles...
“The Bluest kali” is a series of linguistic exoricisms through the corridors of a brown woman's clinical depression, dissociations and displacements that extend from psychological to spiritual exiles. Bhanu Kapil says, "...This is a book composed in an intense present—the 'returning wave'—of trauma, ecstasy, displacement, radical healing and...love."
Hello chocolates, my new collection is available via SPD worldwide. Get yourself a copy to hold and nourish.
If you would like to review the book, drop Lithic Press or myself a message/email.
It took me a lifetime to write the poems that form the sinew, veins and blood flowing through my new book “The Bluest Kali”. It is a call to prayer and also a war-cry. Immense gratitude to Bhanu Kapil and Khaled Mattawa for reading the original manuscript and offering me their words in return. I am so glad that I have been able to work with some of the most gifted folks while making this book come to life (Danny Rose, Kyle Harvey, Ishita Basu Mallik, each of them a lighthouse on their own). “The Bluest Kali” is now available for pre order via Lithic Press. Get a copy here.
And yes, I am going out and celebrating with a dash of purple “n” pink.