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Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is an acclaimed Indian author, poet, translator, editor from Dallas, Texas with six books and four anthologies in fiction and poetry. She has been a featured poet at Rice University, Houston, USA and co-produced and acted in the poetry film 'Kolkata Cocktail'.
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Daughter of the Soil

[Dedicated to the phenomenal black poet and activist Nikki Giovanni from Virginia, USA, and to her poem ‘Lemonade Grows from Soil, too’, from her book ‘MAKE ME RAIN’: Poems & Prose.] The raw, spiraling dance that sprang like unseasonal growthof turbulence, reeking
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Neurotic

‘It’s way past midnight’. “Who remains awake at this ‘happy hour’, signing a pact with the mind’s secret chambers?” “Neither a ghost, nor a she-demon, nor a witch, but a dark, sombre truth of a female body in her prime, screaming
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Caged

I have seen you sitting in the wrinkled sack of a home Your moist, savory stories slapped shut in the folds of your earth, Pregnant, drunk, and raining. I have seen the blue-red shriek, the aboriginal music Piercing through your
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