The Fingers Remember

by Aditi Rao

Aditi Rao's writing is imbued with the attentiveness of a lepidopterist, the tenderness of an epicurean and the quiet, unflinching fortitude one associates with surgeons on the battlefront. The frontlines are those of attrition and loss - of the body, of memory of time and space, and of love-where the poems themselves are acts of resistance, of survival, and, ultimately, of celebration and transcendence. A The Fingers Remember can enter and occupy crannies of the reader's mind, humming reminders that are at once unnervingly intimate yet strangely new.

195 pages, Paperback

First published March 18, 2015

Reviews

[Devangi Godara]

Felt like tracing old scars and finding new stories underneath them

[Barry Gilder]

Aditi Rao is a friend, a mentor, a wonderful person and, quite simply, an amazing poet. Find this book! Read it!