Published Fall 2019
Trade Paperback, 76 pp
16.5cms x 23.3 cms
ISBN: 978-1-7333453-0-9
poetry chapbook
The chapbook-length prose poem is a meditation on the molecular and narrative forces of language as the locus for human engagement.
Desai weaves mordant satire, raw emotion and razor-sharp intellect with an ease and clarity of voice in this exhilarating experiment in narrative poetry
why not again a love story is Desai’s first published poetry book.
$ 18.00 – pre order
$ 18.00
ABOUT AUTHOR
drawing by rehaan engineer
Prajna Desai is an art historian and writer of fiction. Her scholarship about visual politics, print culture, and built form develops at the intersection of history, literature, and science. Prajna holds a Masters from the University of Mumbai and a PhD from Yale University. Her writing has appeared across Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Aperture, tcj.com, Art India, Guernica, and Caravan. She has taught at the University of Southern California (LA) and Stern College for Women (NY), held fellowships at Delfina Foundation (London) and MoMA (NY), and guest lectures on postwar transnational art histories at the School of Visual Arts (NY). She lives across languages and resides in Brooklyn. Bombay is home.
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