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Tishani Doshi's New Poetry Collection Explores Life and Mortality

Tishani Doshi's New Poetry Collection Explores Life and Mortality
‘Send no rescue missions for us’: In Tishani Doshi’s new book of poems, birds are omens and oracles · scroll.in

Tishani Doshi has written a new book of poems called 'Egrets, While War'.

In her poems, she talks about life and death, using pictures of birds, wasps, and nature.

She also thinks about big questions like why we are here and what happens after we die.

Some of her poems are sad and make you think, while others describe the world around us.

She uses stories from old books and ideas from Buddhism to help explain her thoughts.

The poems are like little stories that make you feel and think deeply about life.

Key facts

Author
Tishani Doshi
Book Title
Egrets, While War
Publisher
HarperCollins India
Themes
Life, death, nature, existential reflection
Imagery
Birds, wasps, natural phenomena
Philosophical References
Mundaka Upanishad, Buddhist concepts
Emotional Tone
Melancholic, reflective, introspective

Quotes

Tishani Doshi

Poet and author of 'Egrets, While War'

“To whomsoever this should reach: I write from a town that no longer exists, in a language whose final words have been carved into a trunk of pylon. Send no rescue missions for us.”
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