Bharat jiva

kari edwards

2009 • 132 pp. • $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-9819310-0-5

Original cover art by Frances Blau

Transdada Blog

Catherine Daly reviews Bharat jiva for New Pages.
May 1, 2010

Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. March 16, 2010

CAConrad reviews kari edward's Bharat jiva on PhillySound.
Mortified before kari's Bharat jiva. November 27, 2009

Tim Peterson reports on the book launch for Bharat jiva and
NO GENDER on Mappemunde Blog. October 14, 2009

Bharat jiva is named an SPD Best-Seller for September/October 2009.

This writing is the New Brave. Few writers have so given in to the entropic forces that disentangle our bodies in the end, while at the same time furiously pooling social content into observable patterns. And there are thousands! Millions! Billions! In biological systems, DNA nucleotides are linked by enzymes in order to make long, chainlike polynucleotides of defined sequence. In writing, the sub-social is linked by signs that make ringlets of undefined sequence. Only we can make think to make thought from it. It cannot be conceived of in advance. It cannot be found on the web. No se vende ni se compra. edwards’s radical neo-communitarian impulse is something that’s blood-borne, but not bloody, something that’s keen & observant, but not oculocentric. Like Antonin Artaud, edwards sought to make Writing = Life.

—Rodrigo Toscano

Radical rishi poet-seer-sage kari edwards’s stunningly powerful and erudite essay-rant-manifesto-‘swarm of / messages’ calls a nation of docile bodies to account: ‘no more… protecting the audience from/exploding stigmatas, tracer bullets and the / shit of the dead.’ Deploying lyric thrust ‘to detonate the heart,’ blown bodies, categories and lines enact new ‘delicious fractal’ social contracts for reducing suffering in the body public/private and generating ‘growth in the sky of mind.’ Read this book and you’ll never go back.

—Rachel Zolf

Bharat jiva is a Venn Diagram Production, which is the collaborative intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural, feminist, and queer work by writers and artists working beyond and between borders.

The publication of this book is made possible, in part, by support from: