Research Catalog

Title

Miracle marks : poems / Purvi Shah.

Author

Shah, Purvi

Publication

• Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

82 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In her second full-length poetry collection, "Miracle Marks," activist Purvi Shah charts women's status through pointed explorations of Hindu iconography and philosophy and powerful critiques of American racism. In these searing, revelatory poems, Shah reminds us that surviving birth as an infant girl and living as a woman is miraculous--as such, every girl is a miracle mark. And because education is often denied to girls, writing by women is a miracle. In "Miracle Marks," Shah probes belonging, devotion, and social inequity, delving into what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be. Through sound energy and white space, these poems chart multiple realities, including the miracles of women's labors and survivals. This collection spurs dialogue across audiences and communities and lights a way for brown girls and women who relish in spirit, intellect, politics, and justice--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Women > Social conditions > Poetry
• Women > Social conditions

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

• Tributary -- The poet enters the game -- Beating her soiled clothes, Saraswati reaches God and bursts into tears -- The way you have folded laundry, Saraswati folds continents -- Maya knows how the day walks carrying heartbeats -- Saraswati praises your name even when you have no choice -- Mira pulls a fish out from the banks of the Jamuna -- Maya offers light to an absent reality -- Saraswati works water, hums generations -- Maya appraises what to do with all your stray emotions -- Saraswati marks lineage of the missing -- Saraswati nods to the white man who, after hearing her liberation poems, embroiders "dowry" -- Tinder -- The poet enters the game of Lila -- Saraswati dozes, two hands as a pillow beneath her head -- At the edge of her bangle, Saraswati reckons with the one flame -- Mira- as lit- through a triangle- of encircled wrist -- Saraswati waits for silk & turns to cotton -- Mira marks how dark can unveil blush -- Mira seeks to unpuzzle warmth -- Maya sees purity is false passion -- Maya incarnates the phoenix -- Mira inspects her forehead & offers a genesis.
• Gust -- The poet enters the game of Lila & marks -- Maya admits there are two or more protagonists in this story -- Maya speculates if- at this time- this is- (indeed)- the right train to- right now- board -- On the platform, Maya troubles arrest -- Maya- on the brink of transferring- to the express -- Maya lies awake, invoking an old flame -- Maya marks a destination -- Maya marvels what it would be like to have her self meet herself -- Maya challenges you to a staring contest -- Loam -- The poet enters the game of Lila & marks a number -- Saraswati says in my name, love the sweet of yourself -- In the 21st century, Mira remarks- Krishna's ways of loving belong in a parallel universe -- As she writes sky- -- Mira longs to be more than a bride -- Maya shuffles plates, hoping to generate electricity -- Mira unfurls her hair into a bell when- from this ringing- mirror emerges -- Upon catching snatches- of you- fastening strands of a woman's hair -- When promise disappears, Mira speaks to the thorns -- Saraswati- rendering- between sparrows -- Maya entices you to reach out & touch lightning -- Mira barters infinity to raise her hand -- The poet enters the game of Lila & marks a number of miracles -- Language & Lila: (re)marks.

Call Number

JFD 19-5119

ISBN

• 9780810140387
• 0810140381
• 9780810140394 (canceled/invalid)
• 081014039X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018059564

OCLC

1050363652

Author

Shah, Purvi, author.

Title

Miracle marks : poems / Purvi Shah.

Publisher

Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFD 19-5119