{"product_id":"where-i-live-arundhathi-subramaniam-9781852248246","title":"Where I Live: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\"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. They probe contradictory impulses: the desire for adventure and anchorage; expansion and containment; vulnerability and strength; freedom and belonging; withdrawal and engagement; and, an approach to language as exciting resource and desperate refuge. Her new poems are a meditation on desire - in which the sensual and sacred mingle inextricably. There is a fascination with the skins that separate self from other, self from self, thing from no-thing. These are poems of dark need, of urgency, of desire as derailment, and derailment as possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arundhathi Subramaniam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1852248246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781852248246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloodaxe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Arundhathi Subramaniam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939010740479,"sku":"9781852248246","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bc7defcc-e866-4bb0-80f6-84afdfb9a113.jpg?v=1681438969","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/where-i-live-arundhathi-subramaniam-9781852248246","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}