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Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
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This collection is ideal for readers interested in radical poetry, social justice, and contemporary political and cultural issues.
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All discipline
A deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry
An excuse for keeping count.
Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making, and the practising of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state. Here, the personal is political, and Kandasamy moves between sex, desire, family and wider societal issues of caste, the refugee crisis, and freedom of expression with grace and defiance. This is a bold, unforgettable collection by a poet who compels us to sit up and listen.
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While specific reviews for this title are not provided, Kandasamy's previous works have been praised for their brilliance, wit, and emotional impact by notable authors and publications, suggesting a powerful and thought-provoking read.
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ISBN: 9781838959029
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 May 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 112
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About the Author
Described by the Independent as a 'one-woman, agit-prop literary-political movement', Meena Kandasamy is a poet, writer, translator, anti-caste activist and academic based in India. Her extensive corpus includes two poetry collections, Touch (2006) and Ms Militancy (2010), as well as three novels, The Gypsy Goddess (2014), When I Hit You (2017) and Exquisite Cadavers (2019).
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