April 2021 - The Bangalore Review

April 2021

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TBR Recommends

TBR Recommends – April 2021

Editorial Team

Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by the Editorial Team.

Translations

Five Poems by Huang Fan

Huang Fan
translated by Wang Ping

Walking When I walk, my shoes squeak in painI pretend it’s a blessingWalking will take my health to voidSo I pretend not hearing the pain..

Poetry

Homesick for the Dead

Nicole Farmer

Stumbling through the dust of cremation bones I dream of rivers rolling wide and green and deep – time is an abstraction – you walk..

Off the Bookshelf

Joanne Grumet

The Essence of T’AI CHICH’UAN The Literary Tradition(Translated and ed. by BenjaminPang Jeng Lo et alia) My copy is falling apart;frontispiece with Chinese writing,Preface, Introduction..

Bill of Lading

Gary Keenan

BILL OF LADING Contents received by Charon, Inc. for shipping via sea freight, for deliveryTo the nearest available port of the far shore, consigned to..

If I made her once can I not make her again?

L. Kamali‘i Ferguson

In the garden among flowersthe thick black ants make ecstatic highwaysover and into the sweet honeypot of cow-tongue peonies,the black-eyeds dip drunkenly into the foxgloves,all..

Letters

M. Ocampo McIvor

When I write to you, Hello,it’s marked with swollen anticipation,and I wonderabout your interpretation:did I sound too curt?too friendly? too tender?too insecure?And when I write to..

The Bunny Man

David Simmons

The electric piano comes in. It’s a Hohner Pianet.The keys go:Duh-Duh, Abm, Db/Ab,Duh-Duh, Abm7(b5), Db/Ab,Lloyd Loar’s Vivi-Tone Clavier.[1]Sharp staccato hits. Brighter, with less sustain.Did you..

Young

Rewa Zeinati

I don’t rememberif we kept any plants. If we fussed over themlike new parents worried that the waterwasn’t enough or the sun. I remember a..

Miss Alice

Ruby Hansen Murray

I remember the missionaries’ daughter Alice at Tullahasee,eating sofke, writing a Creek dictionary in her room,the stick she used to correct the wrong Mvskoke girl,teacher’s..

Book Reviews

The girl and the ghost by Hanna Alkaf

Neera Kashyap

Hanna Alkaf is a writer from Malaysia where the legend of the pelesit originated—in Malay myth, a pelesit is a shape shifting spirit usually under..

Flash Fiction

Absence Makes the Heart

Lauren Dennis

I wake up from my nap. The house is empty. You said you were going to the store, but that was many hours ago. In..

Fiction

Who Cares for the Dead

Elizabeth Banicki

A lean man of average height with intelligent eyes set far apart, a narrow chin, and a mouth that sloped downward at its corners, August..

Fear and Feathers

Sharanya Naik

Every evening, she set up the altar afresh, because she couldn’t leave it out overnight. Even if it didn’t rain, the dew at dawn was..

Creative Non-Fiction

My Mother: Technology and Retirement in the Pandemic

Elaina Erola

My parents now have the same sleep schedule they yelled at me about in high school. My mother goes to bed at midnight and sleeps..

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