When I Reach for Your Pulse Vyas Rushi
When I Reach for Your Pulse Vyas Rushi In this electrifying debut, lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent's suicide. These poems extend formal…
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When I Reach for Your Pulse Vyas Rushi
In this electrifying debut, lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent's suicide. These poems extend formal experimentation, caesurae, and enjambment to reach into the emptiness and fractures that remain. "When my father finally / died," Vyas writes, "we [...] burned, / like an effigy, the voiceless body." Grief returns us to elemental silence, where "the wind is a muted vowel in the brush of pine / branches" across American landscapes.
Which cultural legacies do we release in order to heal? This language listens as much as it sings, asking: can we recover from the muting effects of British colonialism, American imperialism, patriarchy, and caste hierarchies? Which do we keep alive, and which keep us alive?
A monument to yesterday and a missive to tomorrow, When I Reach for Your Pulse reminds us of both the burden and the promise