{"id":15916,"date":"2021-06-28T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=15916"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:03:54","slug":"cutlish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/cutlish\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutlish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 116 pages \u2022 16.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-945588-88-4<\/p>\n

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Cutlish<\/i><\/h1>\n

Rajiv Mohabir<\/h2>\n

Download the Reader’s Guide to Cutlish<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry <\/a><\/h5>\n
Longlisted for the PEN\/Voelcker Award in Poetry<\/a><\/h5>\n
Received a Starred Review from Library Journal<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Selected as a Lantern Review <\/em>Featured Pick<\/a><\/h5>\n
Reviewed in The Adroit Journal<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n

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In Cutlish<\/em>, a title referencing the rural recasting of the cutlass or machete, Rajiv Mohabir creates a form migrated from Caribbean chutney music in order to verse the precarity of a queer Indo-Caribbean speaker in the newest context of the United States. By joining the disparate threads of his fading, often derided, multilingual Guyanese Creole and Guyanese Bhojpuri linguistic inheritances, Mohabir mingles the ghosts that haunt from the cane fields his ancestors worked with the canonical colonial education of his elders, creating a new syncretic American poetry \u2014 pushing through the \u201cpost\u201d of postcolonial, the \u201cpoet\u201d in the poetic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

COOLIE<\/p>\n

Coolie naam dharaiya je hamke tej pakardaye<\/em>
cutlish jaisan kate hamke<\/em> Guyanwa mein aaike<\/em><\/p>\n

With this whip-scar iron shackle name Aja
contract-bound, whole day cut cane; come night he drink<\/p>\n

up rum for so until he wine-up and pitch in
the trench\u2019s black water and cries, Oh Manager!<\/em><\/p>\n

until sugar and pressure claim he two eyes.
De backra manager laugh we\u2014so come so done.<\/p>\n

I was born a crabdog devotee of the silent
god, the jungle god, the god crosser-of-seas. White tongues<\/p>\n

licked the sweet Demerara of my sores. Now
Stateside, Americans erase my serf story;<\/p>\n

call me Indian<\/em>. Can\u2019t they hear kalapani
in my voice, my breath\u2019s marine layer when I say?<\/p>\n

                                                           They made us hold the name<\/em> Coolie,
                                                    like a cutlass it bit us coming to Guyana.<\/em><\/p>\n

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