Tishani Doshi

Biography

Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, novelist, and dancer. She has published six books of fiction and poetry. Her most recent works are the book of poems Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods (Copper Canyon, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award, and a novel, Small Days and Nights (Bloomsbury, 2019) about family secrets, coastal life, and a woman making her way alone in contemporary India. 

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POETRY / Summer 2019

We Will Not Kill You. We’ll Just Shoot You in the Vagina.

By Tishani Doshi

It’s true. We’re useless without our vaginas.
How will you rape us? How will we birth daughters
and sons? I understand. We should laugh.
It would be better if we did, Mr. Duterte. 
In India, our leaders say eating chow mein
excites the hormones...