Editor’s Note: The last decade has seen an abundance of fiction by South Asians writing in America. Writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Kiran Desai have all become bestselling authors. But, surprisingly, no anthology of South Asian-American poetry has been published, until now. Three Bay Area poets—Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa and Pireeni Sundaralingam—just co-edited Indivisible, an anthology of contemporary South Asian-American poetry. It’s about much more than saris, mangoes, and kamasutra.
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The Rise of South Asian-American Poets
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