{"product_id":"the-gallery-of-upside-down-women-paperback-1","title":"The Gallery of Upside Down Women - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArundhathi Subramaniam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArundhathi Subramaniam's poems map a wobbling world, trying to find its axis in a season of change.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fabrics tear, lands splinter, stances harden, loved ones die, names dissolve. But wandering through these pages are some extraordinary women - women who vault nimbly over borders, walk naked, walk aslant, and sometimes upside down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaping from the past into a global present, these exuberant voices offer tips on how to retain one's spine through life's giddiest rollercoaster rides. Blurring the divide between the mundane and the magical, the historical and the imaginary, they point to a new world that might lie within the folds of the old. A world that requires a new set of skills: how to find the right nicknames, how to 'gatecrash into the present', how to 'go skinny-dipping in the self'. These are songs of bewilderment, insight and startling freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArundhathi Subramaniam\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning poet and writer on spirituality and culture. Winner of the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry in 2015, the Raza Award for Poetry and the International Piero Bigongiari Prize, she mostly lives in Bombay (a city she is perennially on the verge of leaving) or New York. She has published three books of poetry in the UK with Bloodaxe: \u003cem\u003e Where I Live: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), which combines selections from her first two Indian collections, \u003cem\u003eOn Cleaning Bookshelves \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWhere I Live\u003c\/em\u003e, with new work; \u003cem\u003eWhen God Is a Traveller\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), a Poetry Book Society Choice, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize at the Jaipur Literary Festival, and was awarded the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy; and \u003cem\u003eLove Without a Story\u003c\/em\u003e (2020). She has also written \u003cem\u003eWild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin Books India, 2024), \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Buddha\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin, 2005) and \u003cem\u003eSadhguru: More Than a Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin, 2010), co-edited \u003cem\u003eConfronting Love\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin, 2005), an anthology of Indian love poems in English, and edited \u003cem\u003ePilgrim's India: An Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin, 2011) and \u003cem\u003eEating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (2014). \u003cem\u003eWomen Who Wear Only Themselves: Four Travelers on Their Sacred Journeys\u003c\/em\u003e is forthcoming from HarperOne in the US and India in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52730928202035,"sku":"9781780377438","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/e-tZV8U-OS9781780377438_e19f7938-b505-4694-a702-7b668a760eaa.webp?v=1763844992","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-gallery-of-upside-down-women-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}