Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Sneha Subramanian Kanta’s poetry chapbook, Ghost Tracks.

The chapbook is currently available for purchase through our press store (Please remember to specify title and author when submitting payment via PayPal.). The book will also be listed on Amazon.com in the near future.

From Ghost Tracks

Fifteen Ways of Saying Hunger

The birds have flown south. Gardenias blooming in the sky.
The city roars in my palm with its leafless branches.

Wounds stitched into the synapses of our mouth
the camouflage of hunger as an outsourced emptiness

water quenching our ruined kingdom of wilderness,
air suspended into nooses. A brackish aftertaste.

Somewhere a murmur, an adhesive of joint fingerprints
a collation of dead fish salting under the winter sun.

The husk of earth shears flesh in an unbound static.
A measure for rain that hems into exsiccate corners.

Trees are taxidermists for the way they store sap.
A flinch of blood. Sky turning into more sky.

Our foreheads turn into nautiluses in the blue hour.
Grief fasting into thickening blood. A sabbath for rain.

About Our Author

Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer from Canada. She has been awarded the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2018- 19) at The University of Stirling. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from The University of Plymouth. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, Waxwing, The Normal School, The Puritan, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal and reads for Tinderbox Poetry Journal.