Book Review: We Are What We Are by Lopamudra Banerjee and Priscilla Rice

Poet and critic Gopal Lahiri reviews Lopamudra Banerjee and Priscilla Rice’s We Are What We Are (Black Eagle Books, July 2022) and calls it a journey of self-discovery.

• ISBN:978-93-88008-42-6
• Publisher: Black Eagle Books, US/India
• Price- INR-295/-/$15

Poetry has an architecture of its own and adorns the poetic landscape with a new thing. In ‘We Are What We Are’– Primal Songs of Ethnicity, Gender and Identity’- the two poets Lopamudra Banerjee and Priscilla Rice excavate the personal memory and diasporic journey where the rhythms of lines possess a fluid continuity, like songs, akin to the forces of resistance. Both are diaspora and feminist poets- Lopamudra from India and Priscilla from Mexico- and now they reside in Texas, US.