{"product_id":"where-i-live-1","title":"Where I Live","description":"\"Where I Live\" combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, \"On Cleaning Bookshelves\" and \"Where I Live\", with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megalopolis, myth, the politics of culture and gender, and the persistent trope of the existential journey. They probe contradictory impulses: the desire for adventure and anchorage; expansion and containment; vulnerability and strength; freedom and belonging; withdrawal and engagement; and, an approach to language as exciting resource and desperate refuge. Her new poems are a meditation on desire - in which the sensual and sacred mingle inextricably. There is a fascination with the skins that separate self from other, self from self, thing from no-thing. These are poems of dark need, of urgency, of desire as derailment, and derailment as possibility.","brand":"Bloodaxe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54228218970456,"sku":"9781852248246","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781852248246_837ffb7e-6649-45be-8359-c54dda3821dc.jpg?v=1767681912","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/where-i-live-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}