Rajiv Mohabir, Guyanese Poet Who Writes to Remind Himself that He is Alive

Grace Aneiza Ali
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Migration is his ‘dharma’, and his world in poetry stretches to colonialism, linguistic identity, religiosity, and his ancestors.

By Urvashi Bahuguna

Guyanese poet Rajiv Mohabir’s first book of poetry, The Taxidermist’s Cut, was chosen for the Intro Prize in Poetry by Four Way Books. His second book, The Cowherd’s Son, won the Kundiman Prize and was published in May 2017 by Tupelo Press. In The Cowherd’s Son, Mohabir explores the roots and the trappings of migration. We are introduced to an India that has been transplanted to other countries. The people in this collection long for their homelands like shadow limbs. They sing for them, they remember them through myths and fables. Sita is a woman lured by the East India Company to leave her shores for work.

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Contemporary Arts & Culture of Guyana and its Diaspora. Founder & Curator: Grace Aneiza Ali.

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Contemporary Arts & Culture of Guyana and its Diaspora. Founder & Curator: Grace Aneiza Ali.

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