Dialect of Distant Harbors

This poetry collection explores themes of home, grieving, and kinship. With wonder, empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors. summons a shared humanity to examine issues of illness and family. Dipika Mukherjee's poems redefine belonging and migration in a misogynistic and racist world. "A grievous vastness to this world," she writes, "beyond human experience. " As the world recovers from a global pandemic and the failure of modern government, these poems are incantations to our connections to the human family-whether in Asia, Europe, or the United States. Dialect of Distant Harbors. focuses on what is most resilient in ourselves and our communities.