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Tabako on the Windowsill $23.95 CAD
8.5 X 5.75 Inches | Pages 72 | Publication Date: March 14, 2025
About Tabako on the Windowsill
An altar is a door; wonder is the key.
What losses and intimacies bring you to this threshold? Tabako on the Windowsill contends tenderly with such questions, initiating through them the work of transformation.
To shape an entire book around portals and thresholds is to search for living myth. Hari Alluri’s poems build from comic books, television, paintings, folklore, music, and a unique imagination. Following an immigrant point of view while maintaining home in a language that engages with blood and chosen family, Alluri offers multiple lived and ancestral spacesin India, the Philippines, Nigeria, the U.S., and Canada. Guided by a burning attention – to braids of displacement, loss, and joy, to multiple beginnings – Alluri creates moments where we can expand through the personhood of perception into wider, overlapping worlds of perspective and possibility.
Praise for Tabako on the Windowsill
“Hari Alluri’s Tabako on the Windowsill is poetry at its most exquisite – offering us language that simultaneously burns and ripples across oceans, between loss and hope, longing and love. With music and tenderness, Alluri gives voice to the profound and the sacred in our everyday lives, the hinge between what is inherited and what is found. These poems are unafraid to step into the ugliness of stretching ‘toward our beautifulest selves’ in a world where ‘smoke works like grief’, Anagolay waits at the windowsill. This collection is an offering all its own – precise, moving and full of wonder.”
– Selina Boan, author of Undoing Hours
About the Author
Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is an uninvited migrant poet of Philippine and South Indian descent living, writing, and working on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and Ts’uubaa-asatx lands of Hul’q’umi’num-speaking peoples. Author of The Flayed City (Kaya Press), carving ashes (CiCAC/Thompson Rivers Press), and chapbooks Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page Press) and The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel Press), siya is a recipient of the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry and grants from the BC Arts Council, Canada Council of the Arts, and National Film Board of Canada, among other prizes, grants, fellowships and residencies.
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