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Bhanu Kapil


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The United Kingdom

Bhanu Kapil is a British-Indian poet who lives in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is the author of a number of full-length works of poetry/prose, including The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011), Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat, 2015), and How to Wash a Heart (Liverpool University Press, 2020). Kapil taught for many years at Naropa University and Goddard College. In 2019, she was awarded the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. During this time, she completed her first full-length poetry collection to be published in the ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 3,806 ratings · 489 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors
The Vertical Interrogation ...
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Schizophrene
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Ban en Banlieue
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How to Wash a Heart
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Autobiography of a Cyborg
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Water Damage: A Map of Thre...
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Treinte Ban: A psychiatric ...
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“It is psychotic to draw a line between two places.

It is psychotic to go.

It is psychotic to look.

Psychotic to live in a different country forever.

Psychotic to lose something forever.

The compelling conviction that something has been lost is psychotic.

Even the aeroplane's dotted line on the monitor as it descends to Heathrow is purely weird ambient energy.

It is psychotic to submit to violence in a time of great violence and yet it is psychotic to leave that home or country, the place where you submitted again and again, forever.

Indeed, it makes the subsequent involuntary arrival a stressor for psychosis.”
― Bhanu Kapil
tags: diaspora, immigration, loss, mental-illness, psychosis, schizophrenia, travel, violence, war
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“All my life, I've been trying to adhere to the surface of your city...”
― Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene
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“Is it a right thing or a mad thing not to re-connect, to avoid reading or writing because of what those will bring?”
― Bhanu Kapil
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