First anthology of South Asian American poets.
Part of Asian America Across the Disciplines Speaker Series.
INDIVISIBLE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY (University of Arkansas Press, 2010) Edited: Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, & Pireeni Sundaralingam http://www.indivisibleanthology.com INDIVISIBLE — the first anthology of South Asian American poetry Since Ralph Waldo Emerson first drew inspiration from the Sanskrit epic poem Bhagvad Gita, the poetic traditions of South Asia and the United States have been deeply intertwined, tracing a lineage through Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and the poetry of the Beats. A seminal anthology, Indivisiblebrings us up to date, presenting the work of contemporary South Asian American poets who are rewriting the cultural and literary landscape of America today. While the last ten years have seen a veritable explosion of South Asian and South Asian American fiction in the United States, little attention has been given to the flourishing voices in South Asian American poetry. Here are poems that take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post 9/11 America. Indivisible features 49 prominent South Asian American poets, including both established writers such as Agha Shahid Ali, Meena Alexandar, and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, as well as a new generation of award-winning poets such as Ravi Shankar (winner of the 2009 National Poetry Review Book Prize), Maya Khosla (Dorothy Brunsman Prize), and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (winner of a NEA Fellowship in Poetry).