About
Blue Nectar showcases the rapture and ruptures of feminist bhakti poetry through the vernacular of everyday metaphors. The divine is, thus, personal, intimate, and relational. The pain of separation, the torment of anticipation, and the ecstasy of spiritual union – bliss is experienced in moments of transcendence from the mundane through the realization that we are that love that we seek.
Poems
1. Black Hole
2. Veils That Hide Nothing
3. Where Are You?
4. Band-aid
5. The Great Wall
6. Unspoken
7. I See You
8. Garbage
9. Permission Granted
10. Holi Moon
11. Plaything
12. Placeholder
13. My Pride Hurts
14. Garland
15. Overtures
16. Oh-Oh
17. Fragile Resilience
18. Torment
19. Declaration
20. Silent Music
21. Swinging in Silence
22. You Fill Up My Senses
23. Intoxicated
24. Gratitude
25.Law of Nature
26. Drunk
27. From Here to Infinity
Meet the Author
Bio
Srividya Ramasubramanian (PhD, Penn State University) is a Professor of Communications at The Newhouse School, Syracuse University. Her research focuses on critical media effects, diversity, anti-racism, prejudice reduction, media literacy, and social justice and has been published in several journals, books, and popular press outlets. She is also the Founder & Director of CODE^SHIFT, a collaboratory, data justice-oriented media lab as well as the Executive Director of Media Rise, a nonprofit for meaningful media for social justice.