“Aishwarya Iyer’s The Grasp of Things establishes a new lyrical ‘I’ in Indian Anglophone poetry—that of the woman who wants to claim urban spaces as her own. This book can be termed as a chronicle of different kinds of hunger—the hunger for a more feminised city, where the narrator converses with working-class women about the meaning of lost and acquired homes; for a different kind of love; and ‘dense abstractions’, which both co-exist with and exceed the ‘ache of forms’—all held together by a feminine lyrical interiority which is not bound by a narrow definition and sense of the domestic.”
Nandini Dhar
The Grasp of Things
SKU: GOT2023
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POETRY
ISBN 978-81-955826-7-9
Paperback
100 pages
229 mm × 152 mm
June 2023