{"id":12156,"date":"2019-01-31T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=12156"},"modified":"2022-11-17T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:38:05","slug":"forest-castanets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/forest-castanets\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest with Castanets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 110 pages \u2022 15.95
ISBN: 978-1-945588-25-9<\/p>\n

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Forest with Castanets<\/em><\/h1>\n

Diane Mehta<\/h1>\n

Longlisted for the 2020 Sophie Brody Medal.<\/h5>\n
Featured as a March 2019 Exemplars Title by The Washington Independent Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Read Diane Mehta’s conversation with Drew Pisarra about sonnets for Poetry Society of America.<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n

In her debut book of poems, knit together with personal essays, Mehta explores her own cultural history\u2014 Indian Jainism and American Judaism\u2014 as well as her ideas about faith, feminism, and family.\u00a0
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“Ankles Like Ancient Birds” from Forest with Castanets<\/em><\/p>\n

I am musing for amusements,
Looking for something good.<\/p>\n

Ancestral spirits back me up.
I am searching, and they are heaven-sent.
What is beautiful? It lasts an instant.<\/p>\n

I hand out lists of lovers and reflections.
Someone writes me a letter in seismographic beeps.
This urn, that eclipse, a nightingale, all of it true\u2014<\/p>\n

I despise losing but do it masterfully.
(The dead pull on my ankles like ancient birds,
my soul, they think, in reach.)<\/p>\n

And if sea sirens and shadow-making revelations
are stage tricks? If these are standard griefs?<\/p>\n

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