World That Belongs To Us English 2020

A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinents poetry canon. Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from the subcontinent and its many diasporas. The World That Belongs to Us features well-known voices like Hoshang Merchant, Vikram Seth, Ruth Vanita, Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir as well as a host of new poets. The themes range from desire and loneliness, sexual intimacy and struggles, caste and language, activism both on the streets and in the homes, the role of family both given and chosen, and heartbreaks and heartjoins. Featuring poetry in a number of languages including Bengali, English, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi and Urdu, this is an urgent, imaginative and beautiful testament to the diversity, politics, aesthetics and ethics of queer life in South Asia today.