What Love Is is a luminous and fearless exploration of love in all its forms—passionate and tender
Healing Humor for Women Divorcing speaker president and CEO The Cancer Club® and Divorcing Divas®
judge of The 2020 Orison Poetry Prize
I thought I was losing my family
Fifty Mothers: Poems Book cover type:Paperback What Love Is is aPreeti Vangani's Fifty Mothers weaves narrative and elegy around the figure of a mother, the poems unfolding in the speaker's Bombay home. Pierced with joy, with music and sweat, traffic and smoke, the collection layers family dynamics, gender roles, and the pain and pleasure of the speaker's body, while drawing a living, lyric line between the "gone mother" and daughter. These poems are the fiercely loving, grieving, sexual, and always processing