Publisher's Synopsis
Mrinalini Harchandrai's first collection of poetry, A Bombay In My Beat, offers a literary ear to the songs and frequencies from the music player during her growing years and the soundtracks of the city, which find their way into her personal expression. She says, "Music and poetry are siblings that complete each other's sentences, employing the syntax of rhythm and rasa." With a nod to the jazz poetry of Langston Hughes and the inflected locution of Beat Generation poets, here is a collection that searches out the sound of slanting truths. The result is a sonorous vaudeville on the page that is poignant, whimsical and intimate, exploring themes on anything from urbanness, politics, human connection and Louis Armstrong's baritone.
