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Fifty Mothers: Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Preeti VanganiPublish date:2/23/2026Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:River River BooksISBN-13:9798988137894UPC:9798988137894Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilyWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC94M85MD9

Preeti Vangani's Fifty Mothers weaves narrative and elegy around the figure of a mother, the poems unfolding in the speaker's Bombay home. Pierced with joy, with music and sweat, traffic and smoke, the collection layers family dynamics, gender roles, and the pain and pleasure of the speaker's body, while drawing a living, lyric line between the "gone mother" and daughter. These poems are the fiercely loving, grieving, sexual, and always-processing songs for the grown children of mothers living in a world that takes without asking. In the keen, interwoven contexts of grief, physical pain, and lyric poetry, Vangani's Fifty Mothers considers the variety of the phenomenal world and discovers in its living wake an abundance of taste, touch, and mothers.

Language:EnglishPublisher:River River BooksISBN-13:9798988137894UPC:9798988137894Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilyWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC94M85MD9
Vangani, Preeti: -

Preeti Vangani is an Indian poet and writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019), winner of the RLFPA Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner, among several other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Emerging Writers Prize. Vangani has been a resident at Ucross, Djerassi and Ragdale. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission and YBCA through which she facilitates poetry workshops rooted in writing grief through joy. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco.

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