Where I Live combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of
poetry, On Cleaning Bookshelves and Where I Live, with a selection of new work.
Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its
bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megalopolis, myth, the politics
of culture and gender, and the persistent trope of the existential journey. Her
new poems are a meditation on desire in which the sensual and sacred
inextricably mingle.