Women in the Waiting Room - Paperback
by Kirun Kapur
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" In astonishing lyrics that give us more than intimate negotiations of memory, the poems in Women in the Waiting Room work an entrancing weave of Hindu mythology, ravishing songs, and the language of crisis hotlines as a means of limning the fate of women's bodies and psychological distress. If O' Hara's " Personism" figures a poem as a telephone call then Kapur's wondrous lines serve to heal, like all poignant and meaningful human to human exchanges: interventionist language that disrupts easy sanctuaries of meaning yet consoling in its artfulness. I call this life on the page, one you'll be happy to encounter." --Major Jackson
" Women in the Waiting Room [is] a bold and bombastic assertion, a must-read for these times and beyond." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil
" Women in the Waiting Room [is] a bold and bombastic assertion, a must-read for these times and beyond." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Kapur, Kirun: - Kirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry and the Antivenom Poetry Award for her first book, VISITING INDIRA GANDHI'S PALMIST (Elixir Press, 2015). Her second book, WOMEN IN THE WAITING ROOM, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Poetry International, FIELD, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares and many other journals. She has taught creative writing at Boston University and Brandeis University, and has been granted fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Vermont Studio Center and McDowell Colony. She was recently named an Asian-American poet to watch by NBC news. Kirun serves as Poetry Editor at The Drum Literary Magazine and currently teaches at Amherst College.
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
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