Tishani Doshi: Girls Emerge from the Woods – Poetry Collection

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Copper Canyon Press, paperback

Publisher Marketing: In her third collection of poetry, Tishani Doshi addresses violence against women by giving bodies abused and silenced bodies a chance to speak at last. Of and for the women that live on, she writes with bold reverence for that which thrives despite the odds–female desire, the aging body, the power of refusal. Doshi reminds us that poetry, at its root, is song–in praise and lament, hopeful and ebbing–calling out for truth and redemption.

“Tishani Doshi . . . offer[s] an eloquent dissection of the body–its attributes, metaphors, deficiencies and contradictions–all delivered in chromatic, richly textured lines, in which the assured manipulation of rhythm and internal rhyme produces poems of remarkable balance and grace.” —The Guardian

“Tishani Doshi combines artistic elegance with a visceral power to create a breathtaking panorama of danger, memory, beauty and the strange geographies of happiness.” –John Burnside

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