About the Book: Let the Smithereens
Let the Smithereens is a clarion call, a reckoning, a fierce attempt at
speaking truth to power. In this collection, poet and dance librettist Karthika
Nair confronts a universe in disarray one where Black and coloured lives dont
really matter, where women and whole cultures get scored out, where love
collapses into itself.
To step into Let the Smithereens is to enter a landscape that knows seismic
shifts, is acquainted with the daily jolts of racism and erasure, and is
familiar with the chaos of war and attack. Words here discharge shock, not just
through the meanings they