Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons
$22.85
- Paperback
34 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2022
Summary
The work in this collection attempts to ‘steal space’ - as one of the poems will explain - from a majority, and to carve a niche for the nearly extinct, ethnoreligious minority - the Parsi Zoroastrians. These poems will give readers a window into a largely unknown, unseen world through its rituals, memories, fragments of its past and glimpses into its forgotten history.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781646627431 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1646627431 |
| Author: | Rhea Dhanbhoora |
| Publisher: | Finishing Line Press |
| Imprint: | Finishing Line Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 34 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 54g |
| Dimensions: | 2mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Dhanbhoora opens her collection with the line, “There are words people like me will hear that you don’t know” and takes us to a world “slipping in and out of global consciousness,” of “once-flushed fires,” of “a maladjusted minority struggling for space,” of “menacing warmth from the soughing of the wind,” “where invisible is better than seen,” where “some vulture carries memories through the sky in its belly.” When you read Rhea’s work, you must be ready to do as she asks, to “pick a place to watch the beginning of the end.” And you must be hungry because her words are truly “food, flowers, bodies - ready to be devoured.”-Kevin Dublin, author of How to Fall in Love in San Diego
Thoughtful, soulful, beautiful, and thorough, Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons voices the diasporic existence of an ethnoreligious minoritized speaker. Rhea Dhanbhoora exhibits mastery of imagery with her rich references to the smells and textiles associated with Parsi Zoroastrian culture. From the funereal to the whimsical, Sandalwood-Scented Skeletons is a savory collection of poetry.-DeMisty D. Bellinger, author of Peculiar Heritage and Rubbing Elbows
Rhea Dhanbhoora’s poetry sings with longing. Her delicate intertwining of gorgeous lyricism and raw storytelling paint vivid pictures of a world that is slipping away, and taking her identity with it. Dhanbhoora is a historian, an archeologist, a mourner-a collector of memories and images that stay with us long after we finish reading.-Hannah Grieco, editor of And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative (Alternating Current Press, 2022)
Poems of longing and questioning, of identity, biology, home, charged as the ring around a flame.-Ashley Mayne, author
Rhea Dhanbhoora
Rhea lives and writes in Upstate NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications including Chronogram, Peripheries Journal, Capsule Stories, The Spill, and JMWW. She’s currently on the Board for literary organization, Quiet Lightning, and is working on several projects, among which is a linked collection of stories about women, based in the same Parsi Zoroastrian diaspora featured in this debut chapbook.
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