Love Without a Story by Arundhathi Subramaniam (English) Paperback Book

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Subramaniam's latest collection celebrates an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and time, they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge across the frozen attitudes that divide our world.

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Here are poems that celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and time, they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge across the frozen attitudes that divide our world. But at the heart of the collection is a deeper preoccupation, with those blurry places where humans might walk with gods, where the body might touch the beyond, where the enchanted might intersect effortlessly with the everyday. Where one stumbles upon what the poet simply calls 'love without a story'. Arundhathi Subramaniam's previous book from Bloodaxe, When God Is a Traveller, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Love Without a Story is her fourth collection of poetry. Her earlier work is available in Where I Live: New & Selected Poems.

Author Biography

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an award-winning poet and writer on spirituality and culture. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry in 2015, the Raza Award for Poetry and the International Piero Bigongiari Prize, she divides her time between Bombay and New York. She has published two previous books of poetry in Britain with Bloodaxe, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems (2009), which combines selections from her first two Indian collections, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with new work, and When God Is a Traveller (2014), a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize at the Jaipur Literary Festival, and was awarded the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy. Her latest collection, Love Without a Story, is published by Bloodaxe in 2020. She has also written The Book of Buddha (Penguin, 2005) and Sadhguru: More Than a Life (Penguin, 2010), co-edited Confronting Love (Penguin, 2005), an anthology of Indian love poems in English, and edited Pilgrim's India: An Anthology (Penguin, 2011) and Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry (2014). In 2006 she appeared at London's Poetry International festival and gave readings throughout Britain on a tour organised by the Poetry Society. She also took part in the T.S. Eliot Prize reading at London's Southbank Centre in January 2015.

Table of Contents

7 I Grew Up in an Age of Poets9 Deleting the Picture12 A Theory of Wandering14 And Where It Might End16 Mitti19 Finding Dad21 The Strange Thing About Love22 La Verna25 A First Monsoon Again28 How to Read Indian Myth30 Remembering32 Bring on the Screen Savers34 The Fine Art of Ageing47 Missing Friends49 Parents50 Parents II51 When Landscape Becomes Woman53 This Could Be Enough55 Tongue57 Let Me Be Adjective59 Let There Be Grid61 The Need for Nests63 Ninda-stuti65 Song for Catabolic Women68 The End of the World69 Shorthand70 The Monk72 The Lover74 The Bus to Ajmer77 In Short78 The Problem with Windows79 Been There80 Backbencher81 If It Must Be Now82 'Dying is hard work'83 Goddess86 Goddess II87 Goddess III88 Memo89 Memo II90 In Praise of Conversations93 Afterword96 Acknowledgements

Review

By turns laconic and passionate, she asks questions about morality and integrity that many poets simply refuse to take on. Yet she is also an extraordinary love poet… A remarkable book from a remarkable poet. -- John Burnside * Poetry Review [on Where I Live] *Arundhathi Subramaniam has already won acclaim as a poet of integrity… There is a beautiful uncertainty about her poems… intimately physical, intense enough to scald and char, along with a will to withdraw, to renounce… unhibitedly sensual while still yearning for transcendence. This ambivalence, combined with a sense of wonder, of unexpectedness, of moods as well as words, is what marks her apart. -- K. Satchidanandan * Frontline [on When God Is a Traveller]. *A sense of wonder and striking contrasts pervade the Indian poet's fourth collection. The sacred meets the everyday, cerebral wordplay delivers full-blooded emotion, and ancient Hindu myths run alongside contemporary urban life. Breathtaking in scope, taking in religious faith, friendships, love affairs and existential themes. Often the work questions poetry itself – but it is always rooted in the physical and the tangible, with fresh visual imagery that really packs a punch. Bold and thought-provoking. -- Juanita Coulson * The Lady (Christmas Books 2015) [on When God Is a Traveller] *

Long Description

Here are poems that celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and time, they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge across the frozen attitudes that divide our world. But at the heart of the collection is a deeper preoccupation, with those blurry places where humans might walk with gods, where the body might touch the beyond, where the enchanted might intersect effortlessly with the everyday. Where one stumbles upon what the poet simply calls 'love without a story'. Arundhathi Subramaniam's previous book from Bloodaxe, When God Is a Traveller, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Love Without a Story is her fourth collection of poetry. Her earlier work is available in Where I Live: New & Selected Poems.

Review Quote

Arundhathi Subramaniam has already won acclaim as a poet of integrity... There is a beautiful uncertainty about her poems... intimately physical, intense enough to scald and char, along with a will to withdraw, to renounce... unhibitedly sensual while still yearning for transcendence. This ambivalence, combined with a sense of wonder, of unexpectedness, of moods as well as words, is what marks her apart.' - K. Satchidanandan, Frontline [on Where God Is a Traveller]

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Arundhathi Subramaniam wants to do launch readings for her new book in New York (where she now lives for much of the year) and elsewhere in the US. Arundhathi Subramaniam's latest collection celebrates an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and time, they return to the urgency of conversation: that fragile bridge across the frozen attitudes that divide our world. Her previous collection, When God Is a Traveller, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and won the Raza Award for Poetry in India and the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy. She is an award-winning poet and writer on spirituality and culture, with books on Buddha and Sadhguru, and has edited several anthologies. Bloodaxe published her first UK selection, Where I Live: New & Selected Poems, in 2009, which combines selections of work from two Indian collections with new poems. Arundhathi Subramaniam is one of the poets featured on the Bloodaxe Poetry App.

Details ISBN1780375166 Author Arundhathi Subramaniam Pages 96 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 1780375166 ISBN-13 9781780375168 Language English Format Paperback DEWEY 821.92 Publication Date 2020-11-12 UK Release Date 2020-11-12 Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd Place of Publication Tyne and Wear Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-11-12 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-05-10 We've got this

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