
Poetry
A Play of Light: Selected Poems
Ruth Vanita
- Year
- 2021 (updated edition; first published 1994)
- Publisher
- Queer Ink
- Format
- Paperback · ebook
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 978-1-922605-01-6
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About this book
Ruth Vanita’s poems are about relationships, and about the distances and absences inside them. She works closely with form and metre, and often sets old stories beside present-day events. Most of these love poems were written between 1990 and 1994, and in many she leaves the genders open.
First published by Penguin India in 1994, the collection returns in an updated Queer Ink edition.
- Poetry
- Love poems
- Published by Queer Ink
Cite this book
Vanita, Ruth. A Play of Light: Selected Poems. Updated ed. Mumbai: Queer Ink, 2021.
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