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Jayant’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jayant’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jayant Kashyap
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April 17
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Unaccomplished Cities
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2020
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Notes on Burials
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2025
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2 editions
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Water
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2021
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Survival
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2019
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The earth that whispers at my feet
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2026
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Jayant’s Recent Updates
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these are real beans, strong and dark (p. 6) There’s a reason short collections like this one get published, and with awards, the poet’s boldness. Lauren here is not as hung on trying to make it look beautiful as she is on making it make sense, and sh ...more |
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"Beguiling and grief-stricken.
I saw this in the bookshop today and it called to me. I read Umbilical and instantly knew I would want to read the rest of the collection. " |
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 Today Means Amen is a short book full of poems. Different stories, different poems. The poems are interesting, more a story than real poetry. The poems touched me. The thoughts of the author touched me. The book was about lost love, about children grow" Read more of this review » |
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| There is some good in this collection, but it dragged on for so long I’ve forgotten all the good. In the second-last poem, the DeMulder talks about burning her “worst poems”—well, doubtful! I appreciate that poems of this sort work on stage and as pe ...more | |
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| Certainly the most anticipated of debut collections for me, I wasn’t surprised by what it packs. Having read older versions of some of these poems, Imogen’s approach to drafting shows why this collection takes you in: her work is concise, decisive an ...more | |
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"A phenomenal debut which definitely lived up to my expectations. I’m excited to read more of Zain Rishi’s poetry in the future!"
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“Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.”
― Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
― Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as the starfish loves a coral reef and as kudzu loves trees, even if the oceans turn to sawdust and the trees fall in the forest without anyone around to hear them. I will love you as the pesto loves the fettuccini and ats the horseradish loves the miyagi, and the pepperoni loves the pizza. I will love you as the manatee loves the head of lettuce and as the dark spot loves the leopard, as the leech loves the ankle of a wader and as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you as the doctor loves his sickest patient and a lake loves its thirstiest swimmer. I will love you as the beard loves the chin, and the crumbs love the beard, and the damp napkin loves the crumbs, and the precious document loves the dampness of the napkin, and the squinting eye of the reader loves the smudged document, and the tears of sadness love the squinting eye as it misreads what is written.
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat, and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp... I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled. I will love you until every fire is extinguished and rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods. I will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close... I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else--and i will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”
― The Beatrice Letters
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat, and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp... I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled. I will love you until every fire is extinguished and rebuilt from the handsomest and most susceptible of woods. I will love you until the bird hates a nest and the worm hates an apple. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close... I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else--and i will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”
― The Beatrice Letters
“We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder”
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“Eternity buries itself in smaller things.
How desperately I have wished for memories to be eternal, but eternity exists only insofar as it buries itself in smaller things. The photograph will exist longer than I can ever remember its being taken. Even the candle which burns exists longer than my recollection of the candle or its burning—it exists but is transmogrified.
In this way, in smaller things, it is buried. In this way, maybe, I am buried too.
— Jacqueline Winter Thomas (March 23, 1991 – April 18, 2019), “4.7.19,” heteroglossia”
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How desperately I have wished for memories to be eternal, but eternity exists only insofar as it buries itself in smaller things. The photograph will exist longer than I can ever remember its being taken. Even the candle which burns exists longer than my recollection of the candle or its burning—it exists but is transmogrified.
In this way, in smaller things, it is buried. In this way, maybe, I am buried too.
— Jacqueline Winter Thomas (March 23, 1991 – April 18, 2019), “4.7.19,” heteroglossia”
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“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
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