When I Reach for Your Pulse
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When I Reach for Your Pulse

  1. 124 pages
  2. English
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When I Reach for Your Pulse

About this book

In this electrifying debut, lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent's suicide. "When my father finally / died," Vyas writes, "we [...] burned, / like an effigy, the voiceless body." Grief returns us to elemental silence, where "the wind is a muted vowel in the brush of pine / branches" across American landscapes. These poems extend formal experimentation, caesurae, and enjambment to reach into the emptiness and fractures that remain. This language listens as much as it sings, asking: can we recover from the muting effects of British colonialism, American imperialism, patriarchy, and caste hierarchies? Which cultural legacies do we release in order to heal? Which do we keep alive, and which keep us alive? A monument to yesterday and a missive to tomorrow, When I Reach for Your Pulse reminds us of both the burden and the promise of inheritance. "[T]he wail outlasts / the dream," but time falls like water and so "the stream survives its source."

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Information

Publisher
Four Way Books
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781954245549
eBook ISBN
9781954245556
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. ॐ नमो नारायणाय
  6. Effigy
  7. Midwest Physics: First Law
  8. Entomology // Mirage
  9. Funeral: Durga Puja
  10. Beads
  11. Suicide Note in absentia, Part 1
  12. Attachment
  13. Morning Chant: Cave
  14. Conditional Bridges
  15. Viveka Vairāgya at the Amtrak Station
  16. Double Slit
  17. When I Reach for Your Pulse
  18. ॐ नमो नारायणाय
  19. Love Story with Rolex
  20. Proverb in absentia
  21. Midwest Physics: Second Law
  22. Making Ghee in This American Kitchen
  23. Nāranga aurantium
  24. Remembrance
  25. I Saw You and I Learned This, Beloved
  26. Raga of Bapu’s Hand as Brueghel’s Icarus with Rilke and a Swami in It
  27. Suicide Note in absentia, Part 2
  28. ॐ नमो नारायणाय
  29. Scaffold
  30. ॐ नमो नारायणाय
  31. Cremation :: Translation
  32. Diaspora
  33. Funeral: Pilgrimage
  34. Morning Chant: Scatter
  35. Exegesis as Quarter Cento from the Wagah Border
  36. Postcard from Amritsar
  37. Ars Poetica
  38. When I Reach for Your Pulse (again)
  39. Reincarnation
  40. Suicide Note in absentia, Part 3
  41. ॐ नमो नारायणाय
  42. Midwest Physics: Third Law
  43. Effigy (again)
  44. Radial
  45. Man of the House Falls in Obeisance to the Saint of the Otherwise Frugal
  46. Dear Paranoia,
  47. Wedding
  48. New Definition of Blues
  49. Netī Netī
  50. ॐ नमो नारायणाय
  51. Notes
  52. Acknowledgments
  53. About the Author

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