Dustin Pickering review's The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry by Srividya Sivakumar and Paresh Tiwari in Cafe Dissensus. 

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As Srividya Sivakumar and Paresh Tiwari’s anthology, The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, heartily admits through many of its poets, the erotic stimulates the imagination but is something that remains unfulfilled. It contrives distance through longing. It does not situate necessarily with the body alone, but also the earth and Nature. An anthology purporting to celebrate the human form, The Shape of a Poem accomplishes so much more in the age of social restrictiveness. 

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Read the complete review here. 

https://cafedissensuseveryday.com/2022/08/09/book-review-srividya-sivakumar-and-paresh-tiwaris-the-shape-of-a-poem-the-red-river-book-of-contemporary-erotic-poetry/