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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T.S. Eliot Prize | 2020 | Winner |
About This Book
Bhanu Kapil's T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection is written in the voice of a host speaking to a lodger—an immigrant visitor—and examines the violence and intimacy of hospitality. The poems interrogate racism, displacement, and the body with intense lyric compression.
About the Author
Bhanu KapilGB/US
Bhanu Kapil is a British-American poet and prose writer of South Asian heritage known for work that blurs genre boundaries, incorporating performance, ritual, and somatic practice. She won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2020 for How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry), a collection exploring racism and hospitality.
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