Praise for Tishani Doshi

“In Girls are Coming Out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi combines artistic elegance with a visceral power to create a breathtaking panorama of danger, memory, beauty and the strange geographies of happiness. This is essential, immediate, urgent work and Doshi is that rare thing, an unashamed visionary who knows that, 'while you and I go on with life / remembering and forgetting, / the poets remain: singing, singing'."—John Burnside

“Doshi's poems embody a world of longing – her laments and dreams sear the reader's senses, setting their world alight. She makes you want to dance to the strings of her taut and tender soundboard, and echo aloud her fathomless world. Here is a poet with lyrical acuity in abundance."—Menna Elfyn

“Tishani Doshi in her Countries of the Body has written some rich poems with powerful images. They have the slow curved rhythms of a dancer in their movement. The poet has a passionate sense of the sacred. Poems for her are not statements; they are meditations… There is magic in her poems."—U.R. Ananthamurthy

“Every sentence in this achingly beautiful book carries multiple meanings that resonate across the pages. Tishani Doshi uses language like a blade, cutting through our defenses to illuminate what it means to love, and forgive, and truly exist in the life we have."—Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King

“Tishani Doshi… offer[s] an eloquent dissection of the body―its attributes, metaphors, deficiencies and contradictions―all delivered in chromatic, richly textured lines, in which the assured manipulation of rhythm and internal rhyme produces poems of remarkable balance and grace."—Guardian

“Doshi's poems have both heart and intelligence. They are rich in mysterious images, and narratives both explicit and implied. You could read them a hundred times and still find something you hadn't noticed before."—Louis de Bernières