Full Description
This poetry collection explores themes of home, grieving, and kinship.
With wonder, empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors summons a shared humanity to examine issues of illness and family. Dipika Mukherjee's poems redefine belonging and migration in a misogynistic and racist world. "A grievous vastness to this world," she writes, "beyond human experience."
As the world recovers from a global pandemic and the failure of modern government, these poems are incantations to our connections to the human family—whether in Asia, Europe, or the United States. Dialect of Distant Harbors focuses on what is most resilient in ourselves and our communities.
Contents
Wanderlust Ghazal
Bangkok, 1956
Sleep
Dreamscapes: Haibun
Buddham Sharanam Gachchami
Awshukh; Disease
Monsoon; Delhi
K Block, Chittaranjan Park
Going back to where I'm from
Turn away
This Shawl
Rewound
After the Ice-storm
A Question
These Words Once Danced in Red Jooties
Printers Row, Chicago
While his Guitar Gently Weeps, I turn
At Door County, Wisconsin
Dynamite
Descent from the Winter Garden
Dreamers, 2017
Foreign Passport
Say The Names
Death, A Crow
Supermoon in April
Learning not to Apologize
Saudade
Benign Negligence
Migration, Exile...These Are Men's Words
The Dialect of Distant Harbors
A Diptych at the Seaside
Keeping the Faith
Hindustani Musalmaan: An Indian Muslim
Sempiternal Fire
Amsterdam!
Guan Yin in the Huangshan
Mountain Echoes
It may have been the third glass of wine
Damp Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Pankti)
Aphorisms from the Malay Archipelago
