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Sublunary Editions, paperback

Publication Date: September 5th, 2023

Publisher Marketing: True words ring rarely on a walk Eyeballs are upturned, the street lingers Vacuous notations wrangle with the sense that home must be found, at last The grasp of things redeems the fury of time In this debut collection, poet Aishwarya Iyer explores how the rough edges of both experience and language shape one another. Sharp yet delicate, these poems offer opulent metaphors, surprising turns of phrase, dreamy atmospheres, and a refreshing frankness in which the poet herself ebbs and recedes. Raised in India and Bahrain, Aishwarya Iyer studied literature at the universities of Mumbai, Jadavpur and Pennsylvania. Before teaching at O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, she worked as a copy editor and researcher. Her poems have appeared in journals such as QLRS, Kindle Magazine, The Bombay Literary Magazine, Humanities Underground, Almost Island, Muse India, Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, Poetry at Sangam, and in the anthology Map Called Home. She was the recipient of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize in 2015.