Where I Live
Where I Live combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megalopolis, myth, the politics of culture and gender, and the persistent trope of the existential journey. Her new poems are a meditation on desire in which the sensual and sacred inextricably mingle.
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Where I Live combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megalopolis, myth, the politics of culture and gender, and the persistent trope of the existential journey. Her new poems are a meditation on desire in which the sensual and sacred inextricably mingle.
On Cleaning BookshelvesBlank Page 11Heirloom 12The Archivist 13Sari 145.46, Andheri Local 15Madras, November, 1995 16You and Marmalade 17Madurai 18Amnesia 19Niagara 20On Manori Beach 21Moment of Ivory 22Sister 23Cardiac Care Unit 25Who Caught and Sang the Sun in Flight 26To the One Who Dreams 28Sewage Psalm 29On Cleaning Bookshelves 30Blaze On 32I Am Impressed 33Postcard from a Congealing Moment 34Amoeba 35At the Doors of Closed Rooms 36Words 37Back Soon 38Winter, Delhi, 1997 39Vigil 40By Thirty 42Arunachala 43Prayer 44Where I LiveWhere I LiveFor a Poem, Still Unborn 48Where I Live 49Madras 51To the Welsh Critic Who Doesn't Find Me Identifiably Indian 53I Live on a Road 55Strategist 56Home 57Another Home 58Stains 60No 61Claim 62Tomorrow 64How to DisarmClass Photograph 67Side-gate 68Imran Khan 69Habitat 70Things 71Night Shift 72First Draft 73Nocturne in January 74Gap 75Return 76Decoded 77Reading the Leaves 78Olive Ridley in Kolavipalam 79Recycled 80Tree 81The Same Questions 82Another WayReverb 85Interval 86Resolve 87Living Alone 88Where Lentils Sleep 89What Matters 90Rib Enough 91Kinship 92Been There 93Counter 94Locality 95Another Way 96Deeper in TransitRefaced 99Black Oestrus 100Rutting 102And this is about pain too 103Leapfrog 104Demand 106Fit 108Lover Tongue 109Wearing High Heels 110The Other Side of Tablecloths 112Almost Shiva 113Sharecropping 114Osteoporosis 116Catnap 117A Shoebox Reminisces 118Epigrams for Lifeafter Forty 119Learning to Say Yes 120Watching the Steamrollers Arrive 121Flagbearers 122Forever Connected 123Confession 124Swimming 126Acknowledgements 128
