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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a poet, translator, and vocalist. She is the author of Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her collection of poems co-translated with Aria Fani, Shape of Extinction (Asemana Press, 2025), was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize.
Adeeba holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and fellowships from Kundiman and Poets House. She is currently training in Hindustani classical music under Ustad Salamat Ali and Jayanta Banerjee. Her interdisciplinary work on the ghazal has received support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Also by Adeeba Shahid Talukder:
Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved
Shape of Extinction
A Love Note
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
A Song For My Nation
Rahguzar: The Path
On Lightning and Rest
What Is Not Beautiful
IVF
I will not birth a child,
I will not —
in this land where God
has not restrained us
where we cannot
find home despite
our wilderness,
despite treading
filthy water for days. Where
mirrors are broken
green bottles, liquid
gold mixed with lime —
in the mornings
the nurses draw blood,
tell me my veins
are too thin; prick my skin
until they find
blood, until
I grow a bruise
like a country.
In dark rooms
a sharp silver needle,
pink gloves, the sunset,
the sunset. I am crying &
the doctors stare. They do not know
it is about my father.
They inject dye into my uterus.
They are alarmed at my hysteria.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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