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Absurd Theatre
$16About the Book
Suchita Parikh-Mundul’s long-overdue collection is rich in music and metaphor. These deeply
perceptive poems compress intense emotion into taut language, and her work takes flight in
unexpected ways. Everyday life and the chaos and complexities of urban spaces gain new meaning here, and her question, ‘What is writing?’ finds its answer in the flapping of a pigeon’s wings. Suchita’s voice is sharp and sensitive, knife-edged and feminist, caustic and tender. This book is a triumph.— MENKA SHIVDASANI
Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Writers and Translators=====
In Absurd Theatre, the personal and the civic share a single stage. It traces a consciousness moving through the body, the city, and time. These poems attend to the ordinary until it yields its strangeness, allowing irony, devotion, and desire to coexist without resolution. Spare and resonant — what emerges is a poetics of attention.
— YAMINI DAND SHAH
Poet, Academic and Curator=====
In this compelling collection, Suchita Parikh-Mundul investigates themes as varied as writing,
cityscapes, broken husbands in need of mending, corporate jobs and the documentary, bureaucratic validation of life and self-hood. Poetry becomes a daily burial of flesh into paper or a salmon caught against the current. Rows of desks join together to worship corporate goals as time acquires a different sort of density. With images that are spare and tensile and form that is often bold and experimental, Parikh-Mundul crafts her own poetics.
— K. SRILATA
Poet, Translator and Academic====
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The Tattooed Teetotaller and other wonders
$18About the Book
We say mind the book, it’s out of control.
But it’s author says
‘Nonsense verse helps its writers escape their resident demons,
setting them free to deal with the more transient ones of mischief.
At time I’ve tried to use that freedom to highlight contemporary absurdities,
at other times to write about those of a not-too-distant colonial past.
Readers will find that not everything here is nonsense, like the poem below.
But I hope they also find that however disastrous our falls into folly may be,
they can also be luminous’
Like Dictators
Rats are strict in their regulations.
Like dictators they regulate
meals and nations
along lines of bite.
