Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
Description
A fierce, tender, political collection that asks how to express the fullness of identity and desire in the face of a hostile state.
All discipline
a deception to hide the wildness,
all symmetry an excuse for keeping count.
Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today.
These poems chronicle wanting, art-making, and the practising of resistance and solidarity in the face of a hostile state. Here, the personal is political, and Kandasamy moves between sex, desire, family and wider societal issues of caste, the refugee crisis, and freedom of expression with grace and defiance.
This is a bold, unforgettable collection by a poet who compels us to sit up and listen.
Praise for Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
“The succinct clarity of Kandasamy’s poems, free from prevarication and dissemblance, is invigorating.”—The Poetry Foundation
Praise for previous titles:
★ “What makes this novel unique is the feisty voice of the narrator and the rich details of her intellectual interests and her husband's leftist politics in contemporary India. […] So long as society does not listen to women, this novel shows, no woman will truly be safe.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) on When I Hit You
★ “Kandasamy’s thoughtful deep dive into the nature of abuse and its effects is a call-to-action to believe and support all women.” ―Booklist (Starred review) on When I Hit You
“Urgent, searing.”—The New York Times Book Review on When I Hit You
"A sharp, scalding novel that is not soon forgotten.”—ForeWord Reviews on When I Hit You
"Hands-down the most emotionally resonant book I have read this year. In this fragmented literary experiment, Kandasamy flawlessly combines the political and the personal with her searing insight and dazzling literary prowess." —Book Riot on Exquisite Cadavers
"Kandasamy is needling us gleefully, making the margins a space of defiance, and the repossession of authorial prerogative. She is showing us the sleight of hand in slow motion, and grinning from ear to ear as she does so. . . . Exquisite Cadavers is a backflipping rebuke to the nexus of culture- and capital-making which would seek to backhandedly praise her bravery over her craft, and thereby keep her pushed to the sidelines. It is a joy." --LA Review of Books on Exquisite Cadavers
For Kandasamy, as a woman writer of color, taking on this avant-garde storytelling style is not simply a subversive statement. It is about laying claim to an intellectual space that is generally not allowed to writers like her. . . . Kandasamy has beautifully scaled an artistic summit often denied to writers like her. Her success is that we, as readers and reviewers, are drawn to deliberate the creative merits of her singular experiment rather than her personal life, even though it's been laid bare in these margins." —NPR on Exquisite Cadavers
"It's wonderful, a different view of difference." —LitHub on Exquisite Cadavers
"Thank god for writing like this. For books like this. ― Max Porter, author, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers on Exquisite Cadavers
