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Author_Soham Patel
ayurveda
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feminism
feminist
feminist poetry
gender
gendered
India
infanticide
performance
play
poetry
Sex
sex-selection
sex-selective elimination
South Asian
women
women-centric
yoga
Product details
- ISBN 9781643623085
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2026
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A genre-defying blend of poetry, performance, and political awakening that confronts the transnational crisis of sex-selective elimination.
In a prismatic meditation on survival, Patel assembles a chorus of seven voices to sing songs of resistance and queer desire. Patel transforms medical language, pop culture fragments, and dream sequences into an unflinching examination of what it means to exist in a world that doesn’t want you. From yoga halls to ultrasound clinics, from Bollywood dance routines to ghost stories, Patel maps the daughter industry with her signature wit, prosody, and clear-sighted documentation of erased histories.
Soham Patel is the author of all one in the end/water— (Delete Press, 2022), ever really hear it (Subito Press, 2018), winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar (The Accomplices, 2018). They live in Blacksburg, Virginia where they run the graduate publishing certificate on the MFA faculty at Virginia Tech, teaching courses on literary magazines, small presses, and digital publications.
