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Peter Howarth: ‘How to Wash a Heart’, 9 June 2022

How to Wash a Heart 
by Bhanu Kapil.
Pavilion, 52 pp., £9.99, March 2020, 978 1 78962 168 6
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... In January​ 2009, Bhanu Kapil went to the India-Pakistan border and lay down. After pressing her body into the earth, she began to build an outline around the imprint, paying attention to everything she sensed – she intended her notes to form the basis of an epic poem on the ‘transgenerational effects’ of Partition ...

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