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From ULR
Issue 1 – The Beginning
DEVI
A fierce goddess rants, sings, and grieves, blurring myth and vivid human desire.
July 15, 2018
Poems that inhabit the persona of the Goddess Durga, and speak in a voice that is questioning,
irreverent, sensual, strong, grieving. This Durga rants, sings, laughs as she examines her own
mythologies and the symbols that surround her. Is she goddess or human, is she ancient or very,
very modern? Does she speak to herself, or to a woman who mirrors her? These poems spring
from the space between divinity and humanity, the sacred and the profane, opposing binaries
and seeking instead a vivid, visceral, personal experience of desire, destruction, and the
“terrible and essential” truths of Her song.
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Sampurna Chattarji
Sampurna Chattarji is a writer, editor, translator and teacher with twenty-one publications to her credit. These include Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an Alien (HarperCollins 2015, 2020), which she wrote while on residency at the University of Kent, Canterbury; Dirty Love (Penguin 2013), which is her short story collection about Bombay/Mumbai; and Wordygurdyboom! (Puffin Classics 2008), which is her translation of Sukumar Ray’s poetry and prose. Her translation of Joy Goswami’s prose poems After Death Comes Water (Harper Perennial, 2021) has been lauded as a recreation of the Bangla originals in ‘a living voice, as inventive and vivid as the English of Joyce’. Sampurna’s work as an editor includes Future Library (Red Hen Press 2022) an anthology of contemporary Indian writing released in the US. The most recent of her eleven poetry titles is Unmappable Moves, just out from Mumbai-based indie-press Poetrywala. She can be found on Instagram as @ShampooChats.