Kin: Essays on Reckless Devotion

The debut essay collection by a major poet that centers ecstasy, connection, and embodied curiosity from an expansive, diasporic perspective

After years of writing about South Asian American trauma and displacement in her acclaimed poetry collections Curb and Kith, Divya Victor turns to the essay to explore eros and sensuousness as shaping forces of subjectivity, political feeling, and aesthetic experience.

Victor imagines Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Chitra Ganesh jousting about nudes, describe...