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Nitoo Das’s New Collection of Poetry Crowbite Is Located in the Matrix of Caste and Class
This weekend s Verse Affairs looks at the poet s use of crows not only as metaphors but also as the alphabets or graphemes of a new language.
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About three-fourth through Nitoo Das’s new collection of poetry, 
Crowbite (Red River, 2020), we come upon a poem titled, “Waterfall in March, Sohra”. Sohra is another name for Cherrapunji, a town in Meghalaya, and one of the wettest places on earth. But, in this short poem — 18 lines — the waterfall is not what you would expect; it is barely a trickle: ....

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