Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

Download or read book Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You written by Meena Kandasamy and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fierce, tender, political collection that asks how to express the fullness of identity and desire in the face of a hostile state.All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetryan excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making, and the practising of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state. Here, the personal is political, and Kandasamy moves between sex, desire, family and wider societal issues of caste, the refugee crisis, and freedom of expression with grace and defiance. This is a bold, unforgettable collection by a poet who compels us to sit up and listen.