Book record
The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia
Anthology
The World That Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia is an anthology of South Asia poetry, translated by Aditi Angiras, Akhil Katyal, published by HarperCollins. It is an anthology of queer poetry from South Asia, edited by Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal. As an anthology, its importance lies in making a shared space for desire, survival, kinship, defiance, and region without pretending those experiences are uniform. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins