Rajiv Mohabir

Cutlish

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Rajiv Mohabir's Cutlish uses history to interrogate the word 'home' and all that it might mean to those who thrive in spite of homophobia, stereotype, and xenophobia. These poems are grounded in definite time and space in a voice that refuses to be silenced, 'They are vexed you survive; that you/rise up from the pavement...'"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Four Way Books
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 148mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781945588884
• ISBN-10: 1945588888
• Artikelnr.: 62267200

Autorenporträt

Rajiv Mohabir, an immigrant to the United States, is the author of The Cowherd 's Son (Tupelo Press 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize; Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention 2018) and The Taxidermist's Cut (Four Way Books 2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize, Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019) which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award. His memoir Antiman received Reckless Books' New Immigrant Writing Prize and is forthcoming 2021. He received his PhD in English from the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa and his MFA in Poetry from Queens College, CUNY. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. He lives in the Boston area.