#Rajiv Mohabir

[geryone]

The Cowherd's Son, Rajiv Mohabir

#quotes #quote #poetry #poem #Rajiv Mohabir #id in alt text

[thedearidiot]

- Rajiv Mohabir, pānī vic mīn piyasī.

#rajiv mohabir #poetry #the house has its ramification

[willowstreetstories]

Erotic Things there is no self just rapture By Rajiv Mohabir

The texture of wet clay on a throwing wheel

The blue of an eastern bluebird when spring crashes on the heels of winter

Keats’s negative capability has the potential *

Mistaking your lover for someone else when he turns his back

Exotic sounds like exotic. But not when people call me this * The erotic makes sense when we think of jouissance and how that means there is no self just rapture. When I say jouissance, I like the eroticism of it being in French with that final nasal and sibilant. Doesn’t this sound like how a romance novelist would write it—and to me my own auto-colonial reading is not erotic, of French that is. Of English and Spanish too—they sound like colonial coercion, and that’s not erotic.  *

The pharmakon: how snake venom poisons, how the antidote distills from that very venom

The space of indeterminacy  *

Dark-skinned men in short shirts and shorts, men with bubble butts and thick thighs  *

“Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy.” —Audre Lorde *

Queers and not fitting in one envelope or one’s shorts

But maybe eros is exotic, and by this, I mean the very textural gesture of the word, what it points to, what we hide in clothes or words *

The texture of language

The linguistic texture of Bhojpuri, Creolese, and English brush up together—living their taboos together—through the act of emergence despite repression

Secret languages that we speak to each other in *

The lips when they bite strawberries, how they envelop the red

Swollen strawberry guava. The smell as they rot on the ground—like wine. I remember tramping through a sprawling forest path at Kuli‘ou‘ou Ridge where the forest floor practiced its winemaking. The entire climb was perfumed and that was erotic, the emerald of the mountain, the cloud cover like fog and the turning of sugar into liquor.

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021, finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry), The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize; Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention 2018), and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books 2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019) which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

His essays can be found in places like Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Journal, Moko Magazine, Cherry Tree, Kweli, and others, and has been a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2018. His memoir Antiman (Restless Books 2021, finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and the 2022 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir), received the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Currently he is an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College and the translations editor at Waxwing Journal.

#rajiv mohabir #poetry #zuihitsu

[byronicist]

"A bitter leafed tree / greens between the cracks of hope / and pain; blues berries."

Rajiv Mohabir, from A Self to Hold the Self (2022)

#quotes #lit #literature #poetry #spilled ink #modern poetry #poets of color #rajiv mohabir

[solarisgod]

MEGA ECLIPSESTUCK WORDWEAVE IN SUN ⅋ STARS ⅋ MOON I love you , I love you , I love you — Even when these words were meant to be empty , made with blood ⅋ gore by a monster , how Micah can still see meanings in them like they are their stars ⅋ flowers to name . ( I see the rising moon from sea horizon , I see the red marks across tender skin , I see fire , I see you , ⅋ I love you — ) * Happy Valentine's Day to me with my sun , @lunarisdog . ☼ ♡ ☾

I. THE SUN / FROM MICAH'S POINT OF VIEW TO XYR MOON

Tumblr user ruhlare / O What Is Setting Sun's Radiance To Me, Alexander Blok / Turning Twenty Three, Anne Michaels / Canticle, May Sarton / Song of Songs, Sylvie Baumgartel / Pink, Sylvie Baumgartel / Tumblr user inkskinned / The Love of the Wolf, Hélène Cixous / Rainer Maria Rilke / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / Tumblr user rbhvleo / A Brief Attachment, Cate Marvin / Corpse Song, Margaret Atwood / We Will Be Together, Darling, together, Anna Akhmatova / Letters to Véra, Vladimir Nabokov

II. THE ECLIPSE / WITH MICAH ⅋ WARLOCK TO EACH OTHER

Heaven and Earth, Lord Byron / No One Has Taken Anything Away, Marina Tsvetaeva / Anno Domini MCMXXI, Anna Akhmatova / Songs from an Island, Ingeborg Bachmann / Descending Figure, Louise Glück Epithalamium / Circe, Gabriel Zaid / Scheherazade, Richard Siken / Sanober Khan / Tumblr user spacesweepers / Explodingly Yours, Chen Chen / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / Changing, Liv Ullman / 3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta / Confessional, Sue Zhao / South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami / Saying Your Names, Richard Siken / The New Physicality of Long Distance Love, June Jordan / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / 100 Love Sonnets, Pablo Neruda / If We Were Vllains, M.L. Rio / Sonnet of the Garland of Roses, Federico Garcia Lorca / Tumblr user vilicity

III. THE MOON / FROM WARLOCK'S POINT OF VIEW TO ITS SUN

Yes and No, Natalie Wee / Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems, "She Is Away", Kenneth Rexroth / Giovanni’s Room, James Bldwin / The Cowherd's Son, Rajiv Mohabir / Autobiography of a Wound, Brynne Rebele-Henry / The Cow, Ariana Reines / Cape Verdean Blues, Shauna Barbosa / The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton / After All This, Richard Jackson / Tumblr user ruhlare / Tumblr user stellar-official / Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L., June Jordan / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / Tumblr user ojibwa / The Encounter, Louise Glück

#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ SAVED . › #𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ CREATIONS . › #𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ LUNARISDOG . › #𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ WARLOCK . › #[ YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYYYYYYY ] #[ WE FINALLY MADE THIS SINCE STARTING IT LIKE.... SEVERAL MONTHS AGO SJDBJNDKG ] #[ sooooo happy my beloved and I could find the time AND energy to finish this AAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 ] #[ happy Valentine's Day to Eclipsestruck and us INDEED!!! ]

[deathprrrf]

Our Flag Means Death x Give Me a Boat That Can Carry Two, Rajiv Mohabir pt. 1, pt 2

#i never knew making parallels were this hard oh god #please please PLEASE read the whole poem #part 2 coming out in an hour or so!!!! im gonna take a nap #thanks lee for the encouragement #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd stede #ofmd edward #stede bonnet #edward teach #ed x stede #krakhouse #lmao #parallels #writing #litrature #poems #poetry #tv shows #excerpts

[just-wublrful]

who the hell names themselves ‘firechaser’

Averno, Louise Glück |  Tattvamasi, You Are That, Rajiv Mohabir | Bloodsport, Yves Olade | Oscar Wilde, in a letter to Mrs Bernard Beere, circa 22 May 1897 | Regarding the Rottgen Pieta, Ryan Orme/Elle Emerson | Choi Jong Min, Franny Choi | Bloodsport, Yves Olade | The Carrying, Ada Limon | Climbing, Lucille Clifton | From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, Rosanna Warren

#retribution #dustmill #the sun #i love bullying my blorbo. ill do it all day every day. only me though no one else is allowed to #webweaving #woe be upon ye #wubweaving

[bookclub4m]

30 LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali

Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer

Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby

When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Cordova

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill

Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Francisco J. Galarte

Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun Harrison

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson

How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays by June Jordan

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Continuum by Chella Man

The Black Trans Prayer Book edited by J Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv Mohabir

nîtisânak by Jas M. Morgan

Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

#booklists #lgbtq #lgbtq+ nonfiction

[poetryofmanya]

Rajiv Mohabir, from “Tattvamasi, You Are That”

#poems #poets #poetry #quotes #quoteoftheday #dead poets society #dark academia #lit #literature #reading #beautiful words #words #writing #writer #poetrycommunity #life #books & libraries #booklover #booksbooksbooks #poetic #aesthetic #positive #positive quotes #art #art of words

[honey-reads]

See there, the grapes in the bowl you threw with your own hands against the wheel turning anti-clock wise, at rest on the granite countertop—first the globes’ gloss will corrode and the air will spin a fine white cotton to shroud it into dust—

Rajiv Mohabir

#poetry #EM DASHES #quotes #grapes #bowl

[jamesmurualiterary]

Hussain Ahmed wins Orison Poetry Prize 2022.

Hussain Ahmed wins Orison Poetry Prize 2022.

Hussain Ahmed’s Blue Exodus was declared the winner of the Orison Poetry Prize 2022 on Saturday, September 3, 2022. The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction for book-length manuscripts are prizes offered by USA-based Orison Books founded by Luke Hankins in 2014. The winner for the 2022 edition of the Orison Poetry prize, selected by judge Rajiv Mohabir, was announced from a finalists list of…

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#Hussain Ahmed #Orison Poetry Prize #Orison Poetry Prize 2022

[geryone]

The Cowherd's Son, Rajiv Mohabir

#quotes #quote #poetry #poem #Rajiv Mohabir #id in alt text

[thedearidiot]

Let’s pretend you are going hunting. You pack your gear: a buck knife, a bow and arrows cleft from the straight weeds, wild in my front yard. You perch in a red oak, yearning for those chilly mornings that signal harvest. The copper of pine needles falling; whether you catch me or not is not the point. You look first at the wandering deer, the bigger prize, full of meat and bone, with a skin to cure, but you keep an eye peeled for upland birds too, smaller, easier to mount once ensnared. You don’t need a guide to hollow lungs of song. Yes, I said, birds are easy to work with, their refugee bones hollowed for flight, so small and delicate, they may as well not be there. I have always made myself invisible. I mean to say I am still—the trembling breath of a comma, the coincidental object of your want.

- Rajiv Mohabir, Preface.

#rajiv mohabir #poetry #this is not a love story

[thefrostplace-blog]

June is Pride Month: Rajiv Mohabir

June is Pride Month: Rajiv Mohabir

Let’s put a spotlight on former Frost Place Poetry Seminar faculty Rajiv Mohabir! Among myriad awards and kudos, Rajiv’s more recent accomplishments include receiving the New Immigrant Writing Award in 2019 from Restless Books for his memoir Antiman, selected by Terry Hong, Héctor Tobar, and Ilan Stavans ( Restless Books, 2021), and he is the winner of the inaugural chapbook prize by Ghostbird…

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[lifeinpoetry]

. . . I curse English—the language that sows silence.

— Rajiv Mohabir, from “Angreji Ke Sarap,” Cutlish

#quote #Rajiv Mohabir #poetry #Cutlish #out of my collection #Angreji Ke Sarap

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: June 15-29, 2021

New Releases: June 15-29, 2021

Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy (15th) For the past two years, Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop and her podcast “Artists in Love,” which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent. Until he breaks up with her on the air right after graduation. When their unexpected split, the loss of her job, and her parent’s announcement that they’re…

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#Antiman #AR Capetta #Ashley Woodfolk #Bath Haus #Blackout #Brandon Taylor #Filthy Animals #Fiona Zedde #Gearbreakers #House of Agnes #Indestructible Object #Kalynn Bayron #Kirsten Hall #Leah Thomas #Mary McCoy #Mia McKenzie #Nathan Harris #Nic Stone #P.J. Vernon #Rajiv Mohabir #Shing Yin Khor #Skye Falling #Star Eater #Stranger Things: Rebel Robin #The Legend of Auntie Po #The Sweetness of Water #This Poison Heart #Violet Ghosts #Zoe Hana Mikuta