I Cook My Own Feast

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Author: Babitha Marina Justin
Published Date: 01/06/2019
ISBN: 978-81-939403-6-5
Pages: 80

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When you understand that/ things cannot work the way they do/ in movies, you will witness death/ as an angel plastered on church walls/ in a half-orgasmic, half-grievous face/ of Pieta, and perhaps,/ that’s not even the kind/ of expression/ a superwoman should wear.

[T]his is a collection that intends to dig deep through the intricate and sometimes treacherous, sometimes humorously human layers of memory, family, exile and rootedness, womanhood and self. Babitha Marina Justin ruminates, invokes, loves and curses from one poem to another. — Mona Zote.

In this book, made even more delightful by her illustrations, Babitha Marina Justin turns the experience of being a woman inside out. Whether it is the subject of food or clothes, abandonment or pilgrimage, rumour or fact, the heart or the cage, the ‘X-ray or the Echo’, a pond or the garden, Babitha’s lines take us to the nerve centre of villages that live inside us. — Sumana Roy.

In I Cook My Own Feast, Babitha Marina Justin takes you on an aerial view of the God’s Own Country, and her people — immediate and cyber. Sometime, this ride is enjoyable while sometime, distressful, akin to an air-rescue mission; where you would want to be of help but yet fold yourself and watch the poet dress the various misgivings of time and culture. — Linda Ashok.