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Poems that inhabit the persona of the Goddess Durga, and speak in a voice that is questioning, irreverent, sensual, strong, grieving. This Durga rants, sings, laughs as she examines her own mythologies and the symbols that surround her. Is she goddess or human, is she ancient or very, very modern? Does she speak to herself, or to a woman who mirrors her? These poems spring from the space between divinity and humanity, the sacred and the profane, opposing binaries and seeking instead a vivid, visceral, personal experience of desire, destruction, and the “terrible and essential” truths of Her song.
