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Bharat jiva
kari edwards
2009 • 132 pp. • $15.00 • ISBN: 978-0-9819310-0-5
Original cover art by Frances Blau
• Lambda Literary Award finalist. March 16, 2010.
• SPD Best-Seller. September - October 2009.
• Transdada Blog.
• Jacket2 review by Cara Benson. November 7, 2011.
• New Pages review by Catherine Daly. May 1, 2010.
• X Poetics blog by Robin Tremblay-McGraw.
• Galatea Resurrection review by Tom Beckett. April 30, 2010.
• Galatea Resurrection review by Eileen Tabois. April 30, 2010.
• Mappemunde Blog report by Tim Peterson. October 14, 2009.
• PhillySound review by CAConrad. November 27, 2009.

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Bharat jiva a penultimate comment on the banality and glimmering potential holdout of humanity. Philosophy of philosophy, planetary biological religious cosmic consideration afloat on the tension of gerunds manifesting without always an I, yet I speaks (“did I not say”). There is agency in the dynamic vibrational circumstances through an accumulation of modifying phrases that eventually land on a sentence’s subject, but not always and not definitively, and the subject transmogrifies through sediment layering accumulation.
—Cara Benson for Jacket2; November 7, 2011
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This writing is the New Brave. Few writers have so given in to the entropic forces that disentangle our bodies in the end, while at the same time furiously pooling social content into observable patterns. And there are thousands! Millions! Billions! In biological systems, DNA nucleotides are linked by enzymes in order to make long, chainlike polynucleotides of defined sequence. In writing, the sub-social is linked by signs that make ringlets of undefined sequence. Only we can make think to make thought from it. It cannot be conceived of in advance. It cannot be found on the web. No se vende ni se compra. edwards’s radical neo-communitarian impulse is something that’s blood-borne, but not bloody, something that’s keen & observant, but not oculocentric. Like Antonin Artaud, edwards sought to make Writing = Life.
—Rodrigo Toscano
Radical rishi poet-seer-sage kari edwards’s stunningly powerful and erudite essay-rant-manifesto-‘swarm of / messages’ calls a nation of docile bodies to account: ‘no more… protecting the audience from/exploding stigmatas, tracer bullets and the / shit of the dead.’ Deploying lyric thrust ‘to detonate the heart,’ blown bodies, categories and lines enact new ‘delicious fractal’ social contracts for reducing suffering in the body public/private and generating ‘growth in the sky of mind.’ Read this book and you’ll never go back.
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Bharat jiva is a Venn Diagram Production, which is the collaborative intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural, feminist, and queer work by writers and artists working beyond and between borders.
 
The publication of this book is made possible, in part, by support from:
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