Ruth Vanita

Biography

Ruth Vanita makes a quiet impact with her lucid and understated style. Hers is primarily a poetry of relationships, of distances and absences. She experiments with form and meter, often juxtaposing age-old stories with contemporary events to create poems of extraordinary power and beauty.

'Vanita has a quiet, firm and self-assured voice that treats even the raucous with classical containment. ... It is a voice one would like to hear more often.' - Keki N. Daruwalla

Books

A Play of Light
Price: $3.99 USD. Language: English. Published: March 28, 2022 by Queer Ink. Categories: Poetry » Female authors, Poetry » American poetry » General
Ruth Vanita makes a quiet impact with her lucid and understated style. Hers is primarily a poetry of relationships, of distances and absences. She experiments with form and meter, often juxtaposing age-old stories with contemporary events to create poems of extraordinary power and beauty.

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