Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021), The Cowherd's Son (2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist's Cut (2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His essays can be found in places like Asian American Writers Workshop's The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Journal, Moko Magazine, Cherry Tree, Kweli, and others, and he has a "Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2018. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. His debut memoir, Antiman, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

Author's Note

Open the Door

Home: Prolepsis

Aji Recording: Bibah Kare

My Eyes Are Clouds

South Asian Language Summer

Aji Recording: Dunce

Evolution of a Song

Bhabhua Village

Neech

Ganga Water\

Prayer

Pap

The Last Time I Cut: A Journal

Antiman

Aji Recording: How Will I Go

Eh Bhai

A Family Outing, Alternative Ending 1

A Family Outing, Alternative Ending 2

A Family Outing, Alternative Ending 3

Amazon River Dolphin

Aji Recording: Song for the Lonely Season

Leaving Florida

Ardhanarishvaram Raga

Mister Javier's Lesson Plan

Islamophic Misreadings: Some Queens Definitions

American Guyanese Diwali

Aji Recording: Love Beat Handsome

Sangam / Confluence

The Lover and the Chapbook

The Outside Workshop

Brown Inclusion: Some Queens Definitions

E Train to Roosevelt Ave Making All Local Stops in Queens

Ganga and the Snake: A Fauxtale / Ganga aur Saamp

Aji Recording: Asirbaad, Blessing

The King and the Koyal: A Fauxtale / Raja aur Kokila

My Veil's Stain

Barsi: One Year Work

Reincarnate

Open the Door Reprise

Acknowledgements

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