Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment
$16.99
“Warning! This book is filled with unexpected turns, happy surprises, fresh language (in every sense), sudden awakenings, quick tears, knowing laughter. And above all — delight.”
— Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones and Bending Home
“Electric combination of lyric poetry and theater … Minal Hajratwala charms, sears, shocks and delights us. A fresh species of enlightenment.”
— Meena Alexander, Birthplace with Buried Stones
“A stunning collection that modulates between steady narratives full of anchored images and storytelling, and playful voices occurring out of lyric utterance.”
— Prageeta Sharma, Undergloom and Infamous Landscapes
From the award-winning author of Leaving India, a long-awaited debut collection of poetry
Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment gathers Minal Hajratwala’s poems and, for the first time in print, the script of her theatrical extravaganza “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium.” Against the backdrop of a deeply political reality, she wrestles the sacred and the profane, urging them toward intimate — and occasionally ecstatic — union. The poems and performance texts here, written over the past two decades, give voice to a wild and woolly pantheon of characters, from the Buddha to Lady Gaga.
Reviews and Other Links
Review by Afric McGlinchey at Sabotage Reviews
Review and interview on Late Night Library podcast with Amber Keller
Review by Glynn Young at tweetspeak
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