Cracked Asphalt seeks to untangle the strings of guilt Sree Sen found herself wrapped in after her move from Mumbai, India to Dublin, Ireland. What is home, beyond concrete, relationships and postal addresses? Born out of worn-out soles, when Sen went fundraising door-to-door in Dublin, these poems are a personal exploration of fractured identities and the essence of 'home'.
Title: Cracked Asphalt
Author: Sen, Sree
ISBN: 9781913211837
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Publisher: Fly on the Wall Press
Publication Date: 2022-08-12
Number of Pages: 36
Weight: 0.0460 kg
In this substantial body of work, Sree Sen navigates a shifting sense of self as she moves through Ireland and India. Her poems offer deep and gentle explorations of femininity, race, and belonging in both locations. Sen deftly commands every aspect of her poems, from the line to the page, with a characteristic thoughtfulness. This debut pamphlet showcases the beauty of poetry as a space of experimentation and figuring out. To draw on her own words, Sen achieves a powerful poetics of coming together, splintering apart . - Julie Morrissy