\u00ab\u00a0Where fear collides with the little shield of love.\u00a0\u00bb<\/b><\/p>\n
Manahil Bandukwala’s second collection of poems is a meditation on love during times of social and political upheaval. As a sunflower’s growth reaches toward the sun, so, she suggests, is a lover’s growth compelled by the gravitational pull and soul-light of their beloved. Many of these poems are in conversation with other poets and artists, creating a lineage of call and response. Against a backdrop of terrestrial crisis, come, spend your precious minutes in love’s Heliotropia,<\/i> where we are magnetized by the unfathomable dark matter of another person, and know ourselves as celestial bodies flowering in spacetime, together.<\/p>\n
\u00ab\u00a0Intergalactic yet deeply earthly, intertextual yet wonderfully original…\u00a0\u00bb
\n– Mikko Harvey, author of Let the World Have You<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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