Review of Kala Pani on Rain Taxi

The gracious Elizabeth Robinson wrote a wonderful review of Kala Pani on Rain Taxi!

Every moment of this book is a testament to resourcefulness and insubordination. The detours and proliferations of Kala Pani, along with its embrace of absurdity, become a means of survival that jumps over the limitations of the rational. There’s a sense of suspension, of process—“cursor in internal disorder”—that beguiles the intrepid reader to follow chaos into constellations that make order as we know it irrelevant.

Thank you, ER! 

LR recommends Kala Pani

Iris Law, poet and editor of Lantern Review, includes Kala Pani in her incredibly generous roundup of book recommendations for the new year, and says some very lovely things about my writing, such as calling attention to how "the tapestry of the [...] language shatters and shifts at a moment’s notice—like quicksilver", and:

"...though she is keen to investigate notions of trauma, geography, time, race, gender, spirituality, etc., her writing neither preaches endlessly nor holds to an overly simplistic view of the political: rather, she holds questions up to a mirror, testing them on a knife’s edge. She recognizes that the notions of place and identity are inherently fraught with instability, and she both celebrates and problematizes this complexity..."

More here. Thank you, Iris!

--& here are some ladybugs for you, all the way from the Redwood Regional Park in Oakland.

Kala Pani is now available on the 1913 Press website

Order your copy (or multiple copies!) from 1913's website. Coming soon on SPD!

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Kala Pani: First Show

The first copies of the book are here! Sandra Doller just sent me these pictures even as the copies are making their way to me.

Cover image is by Kevin Strang; the gorgeous design by Ben Doller.

Amazing, generous blurbs by Joyelle McSweeney, Cathy Park Hong, Bhanu Kapil, and Amitava Kumar. Thank you!

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Gratefully yours, 1913 Press!

1913 Journal #6

1913 a journal of forms #6 is now live, and it includes some glorious work!

Thank you, Sandra and Ben, for featuring excerpts from Kala Pani and The Love Book (starting at p.196 of the free online PDF; Issue 6 is also available in print here).

Kala Pani excerpt in The Volta

Absolutely gratified to have an excerpt of Kala Pani featured in The Volta!