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Poetry. Women's Studies. "From crushed bodies and crushed nouns, Kirun Kapur has composed an utterly original book. Unsparing, un-selfpitying, these poems make an imaginative whole from Hindu mythology, confessions from a hotline for sexual abuse, meditations on a friend's mortal illness, and the poet's private pain. Kapur makes a masterful style from the edges of experience where 'the soul, whatever it is, struggles to articulate.'"--Rosanna Warren "WOMEN IN THE WAITING ROOM is, put simply, one of the best books I've read this decade. Its compressed power makes the pages feel dangerous; the poet's 'bones are a furnace;' her 'face is a game.' I held my breath for swaths of language so virtuosic the lines sing and shout violence, beauty, rage, and love. Then I fell into the silences Kapur records and creates. The women whose stories she shapes echo our deepest shared narratives; they are set as much within each of us as in the book's steel mills, strip malls, white picket lines, and cities--from Delhi to Houston, Toronto to Dubai. Sweeping from the granular ('encrypted tracks of beetles') to incalculable truths ('for a girl to be innocent she has to be dead'), Kapur's poems make us 'behold: a word of witness.' They are the 'reef whose happy ending is to be reborn as dunes.' If you read only one book this year, let it be Kirun Kapur 's: its stunning and lyrical call to live 'under the unsolvable dome, ' will leave you seeing, hearing, and wanting more language, more splendor, m