SUMITA CHAKRABORTY - ARROW - POEMS

Sep 29, 2026

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A poetry collection by Sumita Chakraborty titled “Arrow,” first published in Great Britain in 2020. The front matter presents publication details, copyright and cataloging information, and a structured contents list of poem titles. An acknowledgments section credits editors, journals, institutions, publishers, and individuals who supported earlier publications, revisions, and the book’s creation, alongside a Barthes epigraph about language and inscription.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages100

Reading Time2 h 34 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Poem list

Acknowledgments

# s UMIA CH AK RA B ORT Y 'This powerful andendlessly mysteriouscollection is a bookoffables,of spells,ofrevised narratives,and of realigned songs,brightly lifted above ourbodies by music that isas unpredictable as it ismarvelous.?LVAKASSKY C△ R C△ N E T Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/arrow0000chak # A RROW SUMITA C HAKRA BO R TY ARROW # POEM S First published in Great Britain in 2020 by CARCANET Alliance House,3o Cross StreetManchester M27AQwww.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright CSumita Chakraborty 2020 The right of Sumita Chakraborty to be identified as the authorof this work has been asserted in accordance with theCopyright,Designs and Patents Act of 1988;all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book isavailable from the British Library. ISBN 9781784109929 Designed by Tiani KennedyPrinted in Great Britain by SRPLtd,Exeter,Devon The publisher acknowledges financialassistance from Arts Council England. Sugportedusing pubicfunding byARTS COUNCILENGLAND CONTENT S Marigolds Most of the Children Who Lived in This House Are Dead. As a Child I Lived Here.Therefore I Am Dead.QuiverO SpiritO SpiritO Spirit Night QuestionsDear,belovedO SpiritO SpiritO SpiritBasic Questions Essay on the Order of TimeEssay on DevotionEssay on ThunderEssay on Joy 3 11 15 16 17 18 21 22 33 34 35 36 3g 414243 Windows Arrow Arrow 0 Notes 竹 53 55 79 # A CKNOWLED GMENT S Language is a skin:I rubmy language against the other.It is as ifIhad words instead offingers,or fingers at the tip of my words.—ROLAND BA RTHES,ALover's Discourse I am deeply thankful to the editors and staffs of the following journals,where thesepoems first appeared,sometimes under different titles and in earlier forms:AmericanPoetry Review,At Length,Blackbird,BOAAT,Boston Review,Connotation Press:AnOnline Artifacts A Poetry Congeries,Glass,The Journal,Memorious,The Ofing,Poetry,The Rumpus,Stand,and Witness.Many thanks also to the editors and staffs of The BestAmerican Poetry 2o1g,PN Review,and New Poetries VIl,in which some of these poemshave been reprinted. I would like to thank the Poetry Foundation;the Department of English at theUniversity of Michigan;the Department of English,the Department of Women's,Gender,and Sexuality Studies,and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University;and Wellesley College (which gave me my first glimpse of a life beyond the contours ofanythingIeven had the vocabulary then to fathom).'′m especially grateful for the students, colleagues,friends,advisors,and mentors I had the good fortune to meet in these spaces,some of whom I name here,but many more of which exist than could be contained inthese pages. To the brilliant,kind,generous people at Alice James Books and Carcanet Press—Carey,Alyssa,Emily,and Julia at Alice James;Michael,Jazmine,and Andrew at Carcanet;all of the other editors,copy editors,interns,staff members,designers,readers;every officehedgehog and spider and dust bunny—I'm indebted to your keen eyes,your incredible work,and your faith in me.Thank you for doing the work that you do. To Dan Chiasson,Frank Bidart,and Lucie Brock-Broido,my earliest poetry teachers,for whom no amount of gratitude will ever suffice. To A.Van Jordan,Cortney Lamar Charleston,Deboleena Roy,Deborah Elise White,Elizabeth Wilson,Emilia Phillips,Emily Jungmin Yoon,Emily Leithauser,FatimahAsghar,Gillian White,Heather Hughes,Jericho Brown,Jonathan Farmer,Kaveh Akbar,Laura Otis,Linda Gregerson,Lynne Huffer,Maggie Greaves Ozgur,Melissa Green,NathanSuhr-Sytsma,Nicole Morris,Nomi Stone,Paige Lewis,Rachel Mennies,Roy Guzmán,Sara Eliza Johnson,Susan Reviere,and Walter Kalaidjian,whose gifts of friendship andsupport mean everything to me,and whose brilliant minds have taught me allI know.ToMitali Chakraborty and Priya Chakraborty,whose blood and ashes respectively I share. To Tayl

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What is the book’s title and author?

The book is titled “Arrow” by Sumita Chakraborty.

When and where was the collection first published?

It was first published in Great Britain in 2020 by CARCANET.

Who is thanked in the acknowledgments section?

The acknowledgments credit editors and staff of multiple journals, institutions and departments connected to the author’s academic and creative life, Carcanet/Alice James Books staff, and named friends, teachers, and mentors.

Sep 29, 2026

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