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Terrain Tracks
"Purvi Shah’s Terrain Tracks explores journeys through space and time in beautifully sensuous lyrics charting the dislocations and locations of immigration, memory, love, and loss. Shah’s poems interweave India and New York, tracing the tastes and fragrances of cultural memories, conjuring the feel of New York in its everyday restless movement, tracking women’s lives from family, to work, to love, to transformation. She captures the forces of for the lover traveling away or toward her. Her vivid images keep the reader near the concrete, making the abstract palpable. The imagination and the body’s touch share the same terrain in these moving poems." -- Harriet Davidson
In this debut prize-winning book of poetry, Purvi Shah explores migration and belonging. The book celebrates and riffs upon roots while opening up dialogues on contemporary American issues. Through movement on trains, in nature, and with family, Terrain Tracks charts the possibilities and edges of desire, love, hope, and our journeys for home.
In this debut prize-winning book of poetry, Purvi Shah explores migration and belonging. The book celebrates and riffs upon roots while opening up dialogues on contemporary American issues. Through movement on trains, in nature, and with family, Terrain Tracks charts the possibilities and edges of desire, love, hope, and our journeys for home.
- GenresPoetry
76 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
About the author
Purvi Shah
2 books1 followerPurvi Shah nurtures art and social justice advocacy as portals for healing and transformation.
Purvi is the winner of a South Asian Social Service Excellence Award for her leadership fighting violence against women. Her most recent poetry book, Miracle Marks (Northwestern UP, 2019), investigates gender violence and sacred survivals.
Purvi’s prize-winning debut, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), plumbs migration and loss. During the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with Kundiman, Purvi directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project amplifying Asian American voices.
With Anjali Deshmukh, she creates interactive public art like Missed Fortunes, a community archive which documented pandemic rituals through poetry & visual art prints. Her recent participatory art project, Green Card, explored the impact of a lack of green space on birds and people while inviting climate solutions from community members.
Purvi relishes sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice.
Purvi is the winner of a South Asian Social Service Excellence Award for her leadership fighting violence against women. Her most recent poetry book, Miracle Marks (Northwestern UP, 2019), investigates gender violence and sacred survivals.
Purvi’s prize-winning debut, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), plumbs migration and loss. During the 10th anniversary of 9/11, with Kundiman, Purvi directed Together We Are New York, a community-based poetry project amplifying Asian American voices.
With Anjali Deshmukh, she creates interactive public art like Missed Fortunes, a community archive which documented pandemic rituals through poetry & visual art prints. Her recent participatory art project, Green Card, explored the impact of a lack of green space on birds and people while inviting climate solutions from community members.
Purvi relishes sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice.
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April 25, 2020
Loved everything from the language and content to the themes and titles. Wonderful book; absolutely would recommend.
November 27, 2011
It's my teacher's book.... D: LOL
not being biased, but it's a good read (ahh you get it?)
not being biased, but it's a good read (ahh you get it?)
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