{"product_id":"vanishing-words-sukrita-paul-kumar-9789391431396","title":"Vanishing Words: poems","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWords vanish when poems transcend meaning and rise into a pure experience that is untranslatable into words. They become abstractions that create narratives of shadows and absences, leaving lingering silences behind. These are not echoes of beating a retreat. They are forest aromas, not the fragrance of roses in the garden. In \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanishing Words\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Sukrita presents poems like the tiger's pug marks of silence! To dive into these poems may lead to the terror of loneliness of pandemic times or accord freedom of flight into the unknown. With strong underpinnings, some poems awaken one to the urgency of living fully, while other poems make one witness \"Unwarranted Exit\" or untimely death. Sukrita's poems in this volume present a call for an inspirational engagement with life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSukrita Paul Kumar, \u003c\/b\u003epoet, and critic, was born and brought up in Kenya. She held the prestigious Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Delhi University. Formerly a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Sukrita was an invited poet at the International Writing Programme, Iowa, USA, and Hong Kong Baptist University. Honorary faculty, Durrell Centre at Corfu, Greece, she has received many prestigious fellowships and residencies. Her recent collections of poems, amongst others, are \u003ci\u003eCountry Drive, Dream Catcher, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUntitled, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoems Come Home \u003c\/i\u003e(with Hindustani translations by Gulzar). She is the Routledge Series editor (with Chandana Dutta) of \"Writer in Context\" Series. Her co-edited book on the eminent writer Krishna Sobti is the first in the series. Amongst her critical books\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eare\u003ci\u003e Narrating Partition \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Conversations on Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eNude, \u003c\/i\u003e a book of poems by Vishal Bhardwaj, and \u003ci\u003eBlind \u003c\/i\u003e(HarperCollins). A guest editor of journals such as\u003ci\u003e Manoa\u003c\/i\u003e (Hawaii) and \u003ci\u003eMuse India\u003c\/i\u003e, Sukrita has held exhibitions of her paintings. Many of her poems come out of her working experience with the homeless, the street children, and Tsunami victims.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sukrita Paul Kumar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9391431399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789391431396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hawakal Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Sukrita Paul Kumar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49166351925503,"sku":"9789391431396","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vanishing-words-sukrita-paul-kumar-9789391431396","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}