Poetry. Kawita Kandpal's FOLDING A RIVER is an exploration of East-West cultures. In it, Kandpal's lingual and cartographic explorations of these cultural landscapes takes her into an emo-mythic place not to be found on any map. "In her debut collection, FOLDING A RIVER, Kandpal traces the shoreline of memory. Birds lift in and from these poems as all our margins of error are measured and remeasured. 'I praise what endures,' one poem tells us, and here eden is remembered and re-imagined in all its bittersweetness. Haunted by other landscapes and other languages, Kandpal has written a new narrative of exile, a wish made from the sound of willows and the sound of hooves, a hum of longing, the song the bones sing: 'tra la la to the flesh, tra la la..."--Mary Ann Samyn.
Author City: Detroit, MI USA