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2021.11.18 Book Launch: Aditya Bahl

Please join the Organism for Poetic Research in celebrating the launch of Aditya Bahl’s chapbook Mukt! We will be launching the chapbook next Thursday, November 18th at 7:30 PM with readings by Aditya Bahl, Charles Bernstein, Marie Buck, and David Larsen at Wendy’s Subway!

When: Thursday, November 18 at 7:30 PM
Where: Wendy’s Subway (379 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206)
Livestream: fb.me/e/4bOUdnoxF

Building on the work of G.M. Muktibodh (1917-1964), the foremost Indian Marxist poet and thinker of the twentieth century, Aditya Bahl assembles a startling new poetics that fuses Marx and Mira, the Indian epic and the workers’ inquiry, the Avant-Garde and the Third World.

Let chance be the fulfillment of chant, Aditya Bahl vows in Mukt. Bahl’s presciently braided poetry intertwines, without reconciling, conflicting politics, cultures, and traditions, creating, if not openness, then its possibilities. This is restless, exploratory work that pushes against the aesthetic horizon of de/reformation.
– Charles Bernstein
Every page of Aditya Bahl’s Mukt bristles with a newly forged relation. I can’t wait to see it finished, I can’t bear to see it end.
– Vivek Narayanan

Aditya Bahl is the author of four chapbooks of poetry, including NAME/AMEN (Timglaset, Malmö, 2019). He has written essays about literature and politics for New Left Review, The Nation, The New Inquiry, Himal Southasian, and other publications. He is a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University, and serves as associate editor for English Literary History.