When: 26 August 2010
Where: Pegasus Books, Berkeley
7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 26, 2010
Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
Poets read from the groundbreaking anthology Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. Readings by Minal Hajratwala, Ravi Chandra, Swati Rana, Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Neelanjana Banerjee.
“Rarely does one have the pleasure of seeing so many poets violate the truth that no one can be in two places at once. Indivisible provides hundreds of local poetic delights and deserves a place among the best anthologies of poetry.”
—Billy Collins, Former U.S. Poet Laureate
About the book
The first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post-9/11 America.
Showcasing a diversity of forms, from traditional ghazals and sestinas to free verse, experimental writing, and slam poetry, Indivisible presents 141 poems by authors who are rewriting the cultural and literary landscape of their time and their place. Includes biographies of each poet.
More information here.
