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Mother Tongue  \n1.   ABCs of Hostel Sex,12  \n2.   I Chart,13  \n3.   Stopgap,14  \n4.   Visiting Hours,16  \n5.   Geneology,17  \n6.   Saat Samundar Paar Main Tere Peeche Peeche Aa Gayi,19  \n7.   i am tbirteen and a balfyears old,20  \n8.   Shorthand:Violence,21  \n9.   Waterlogoing,22  \n10.   House Red,24  \n11.  What ofLove?No,What of It Really?25  \n12.  Ma Sang Ghazals as She Oiled My Hair,26  \n13.  Science ofLoss,27  \n14.   Voice Over,29  \n15.  Joint Words,30  \n16.  Visiting Hours,32  \n17.Second Gessing,33  \n18.At the ICUI Think of Wall of Death,34  \n19.Last Rites,35  \n20.Repair cMaintenance,36  \n21.Mother's Day 2016,37  \n22.Admission,38  \n23.Mother's Legacy,39  \n24.Slep Tracker;40  \n25.Being a Woman,41  \nV  \nII.   Apologize  \n26.  What Spilled ItselfOutside the Margin,43  \n27.  Relationship Status,45  \n28.   Keep Me Buning,46  \n29.  Tiny Epiphany,47  \n30.   Fair Trade,48  \n31.  Dog:Language:Expe  \n32.  Self-Examination,50  \n33.  Every Tventy Minutes,51  \n34.  To Swim is to Bury an Ocean Inside,52  \n35.  Victim Directory,53  \n36.  SelfPortrait as First Lines,54  \n37.  Don't Dip Your Pen in the Ofice Inkpot,55  \n38.  Visiting Hours,56  \n39.   Were You Very Close to Your Mother?57  \n40.   Won't You Come Give Grandmother a Hug?58  \n41.   Poems are Useless,59  \n42.   Bare Facts,60  \n43.  Autopsy Reports,61  \n44.  Dalit Sisters Gang-Raped,Hanged from Mango Tree,62  \n45.  Crime Scene Picture,63  \n46.   Validation,64  \n47.  What Do You Have Left in Your Savings Account?66  \n48.  Visiting Hours,67  \n49.   Coda,68  \nEndnotes,70Acknowledgements,71-72  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\n\"Poems are useless,\"begins the prose poem,\"unless they arepepper spray,stinging cries for change,girls dancing fearless atnight.I want poems my mother couldn't write in her book ofrecipes.”Preeti Vangani is,as she freely admits,riffing on theAfrican-American poet Amiri Baraka,who once claimed that poemswere useless unless they could shoot,or provide us with daggers,orserve as our fists.Pepper spray and cries for change are morehumane than fists and daggers,but Vangani’s urgency is no lessintense than Baraka's.Her poems constantly circle back to thecondition of women,both in India and the world,and call forchange.She honors her mother,whose struggles with cancer shedocuments in a number of her poems,but she yearns for a worldlarger than that which her mother was not permitted to inhabit.Heryearning takes the form of meditations on love and sex,on violence,fear,joy,and death.They are poems of feminist struggle—emphatically so.But it is because,not in spite,of this that they speakso directly and so powerfully to not only to women,and not only toIndians,but to that which is most human in all of us.  \nVangani's work is formally various,eve","cbCaivtJReh6Jg2q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivtJReh6Jg2q","pdf",2308892,82,"English","# Introduction\n# Mother Tongue\n## ABCs of Hostel Sex\n## I Chart\n## Stopgap\n## Visiting Hours\n## Geneology\n## Saat Samundar Paar Main Tere Peeche Peeche Aa Gayi\n## i am tbirteen and a balfyears old\n## Shorthand:Violence\n## Waterlogoing\n## House Red\n## What ofLove?No,What of It Really?\n## Ma Sang Ghazals as She Oiled My Hair\n## Science ofLoss\n## Voice Over\n## Joint Words\n## Visiting Hours\n## Second Gessing\n## At the ICUI Think of Wall of Death\n## Last Rites\n## Repair cMaintenance\n## Mother's Day 2016\n## Admission\n## Mother's Legacy\n## Slep Tracker\n## Being a Woman\n# Apologize\n## What Spilled ItselfOutside the Margin\n## Relationship Status\n## Keep Me Buning\n## Tiny Epiphany\n## Fair Trade\n## Dog:Language:Expe\n## Self-Examination\n## Every Tventy Minutes\n## To Swim is to Bury an Ocean Inside\n## Victim Directory\n## SelfPortrait as First Lines\n## Don't Dip Your Pen in the Ofice Inkpot\n## Visiting Hours\n## Were You Very Close to Your Mother?\n## Won't You Come Give Grandmother a Hug?\n## Poems are Useless\n## Bare Facts\n## Autopsy Reports\n## Dalit Sisters Gang-Raped,Hanged from Mango Tree\n## Crime Scene Picture\n## Validation\n## What Do You Have Left in Your Savings Account?\n## Visiting Hours\n## Coda\n# Endnotes\n# Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"What is the central idea introduced in Mother Tongue Apologize?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction opens with the claim that “Poems are useless” unless they can trigger change. 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