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On poetry and 'Singing in the forests'

KRIPOTKIN By Alfred A. Yuson (The Philippine Star) Updated January 18, 2010 12:00 AM I met Indian poet and dancer Tishani Doshi at the 6th Ubud International Writers and Readers Festival in Bali in November 2008. Not only was the lady gorgeous; she read her poetry well. And her poetry seemed as luminous as she looked. I’ve since discovered that she’s also written a novel, The Pleasure Seekers, which might have already been released by Bloomsbury of UK. Born in Madras in 1975 to a Gujarati father and Welsh mother, she was educated at Queens College, in North Carolina, and at Johns Hopkins University. She worked for Harpers & Queen magazine in London, but has since moved back to India where she works and performs with a contemporary dance group all over the world and “only” moonlights as a writer. Her first book of poems, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2006. She also won the All-India Poetry Competition that same year. Here’s a poem of hers,...