{"product_id":"birthing-history-uma-gowrishankar-9781909849365","title":"Birthing History","description":"\u003cp\u003eBirthing history is a slow process that takes place in the forlorn landscape of human memory before mythicized in the collective consciousness of a community. This collection of poems explores how language undertakes this by centring experience and colonizing the mind. Words fan out of the page, escape out of a sealed mouth to scald a territory, carve a kingdom. And bards swell out of wombs to weave metres of poetry, to barter tales of coffee brewed from flakes of skin. When memory erodes, and attempts to fossilize history, both the personal and the collective fail, words like prayer beads fall in the silence between sounds, in the space bar as the poet keys her poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUma Gowrishankar, an artist and writer, lives in Chennai, South India. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in online journals that include \u003cem\u003eQaartsiluni\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBuddhist Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCurio Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords Dance\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCarcinogenic Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePure Slush \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePostcard Shorts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Uma Gowrishankar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1909849367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781909849365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leaky Boot Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d","brand":"Uma Gowrishankar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057091571967,"sku":"9781909849365","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34d63d0f-129e-45af-920f-879233e8241b.jpg?v=1685044982","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/birthing-history-uma-gowrishankar-9781909849365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}