Setting Traps for Light: Poems
About this ebook
In gathering poems attentive to what persists at the edge of loss, Giti Chandra finds herself in landscapes altered beyond recognition and in cities learning new vocabularies of grief. Her verses move between geographies - deserts, rivers and parks poised on fault lines - and often return to sites of erasure and transformation.
Political violence, climate collapse and the pandemic register as pressures shaping the air of her collection. Courage herein holds the ground as a sustaining force, underscoring the defiance to remain present - to look directly at loss, to inhabit uncertainty without retreat and to admit the pleasure that persists within sorrow. It survives as an ethical stance.
Measured and clear-eyed, Setting Traps for Light offers a poetics of looking closely at what breaks, what endures and what unexpectedly holds.
About the author
GITI CHANDRA is currently Senior Researcher with the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (under the auspices of UNESCO) in Reykjavík, and has been Associate Professor, Department of English, at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Apart from her academic publications, she is the author of the Book of Guardians trilogy: The Fang of Summoning (Hachette India, 2010), The Bones of Stars (Hachette India, 2013) and The Eye of the Archer (Hachette India, 2020). Her (mostly sci-fi) short stories and (mostly sentimental) poetry have been published in various amazing publications. Giti writes poetry in April, paints on Tuesdays, has a PhD from Rutgers, and feels that people would do well to learn that a cello is not an oversized violin. She lives in Reykjavík with a husband, two kids, a dog and a cat.
