About 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 trium​ph.

— MENKA SHIVDASANI
Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Writers and Translators

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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

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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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