A Catalogue of Risk by Alisha Mascarenhas

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A Catalogue of Risk by Alisha MascarenhasAlisha Mascarenhass A Catalogue of Risk is a volte face of the neoliberal market economys construction of isolated, individual safety. In her debut book of poems, Mascarenhas lingers in the question of risk as it arises in daily life and intimacy. Through a close study and partial translation of philosopher psychoanalyst Anne Dufourmantelles loge du risque (2011), her poems posit risk as a fissure, through which we might imagine yet unknown futures.

unresolvable tensions between change and stasis

Focusing on the speaker’s longing to be seen

her divorce—and finds a way to archive her history and map her future(s) with the hope and joy of fantasy and magical thinking

foamy scars that welt the blue and melt like meringuein the dusk

politically

" "language

rarely counted

Some glass breaks so/small it needs/to be swept

–Bhanu Kapil

Take your time with this glorious collection

what visionary intelligence

Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work—and enables readers