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Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Vedamini Vikram reviews WITNESS: The Red River Book of the Poetry of Dissent, edited by Nabina Das in the November issues of Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry.

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“The poems cover several takes on dissent, such as, empathy and sisterhood against ideas of animosity between women; limitations of poetry; questioning writing as well as hegemony of writers; freely expressing violent anger as opposed to a muffled and censored response; redefining limits of poetry as a form by fusing art into it (as seen in Maaz Bin Bilal’s poem in which the words beautifully take on the shape of a mosque); and using swear words, graphic imagery and sexual tropes as opposed to seeing language as a pristine arena. The cover of the book itself is in perfect harmony with the content inside. The front cover displays a freckled, big red dot, representing a scattered whole. The back cover consists of 250 words that capture the variety of definitions of dissent that the book has to offer.

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Read the full review here. http://www.teestajournal.com/p/rev-3-42.html

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