Sujata bhatt wikipedia

Review of Brunizem

Brunizem is an impressive first collection of poems by a young Indian woman poet about whom we shall no doubt hear more. Sujata Bhatt is at least tri-cultural. Born in Ahmedabad, India, in 1956, she lived for a number of years in the USA and is currently married and residing in Germany.

Fluent in Gujarati, she writes poems that are bilingual and clearly multicultural in perspective. "Search for my Tongue," for example, incorporates entire lines of Gujarati script, including their romanized spelling, to enabe the reader to see and to hear the sounds and rhythms of this "other language". Her bilingual poetics is never exotic but intrinsically participates in the thematics of recovering an "other" experience which lies outside those accessible to the English language. As the poem declares with moving clarity:

You ask me what I mean
by saying I have lost my tongue
I ask you, what would you do
if you had two tongues in your mouth
and lost the first one, the mother tongue,
and could not really know the other,
the foreign tongue.
You could not use them b

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