a whole lotta kindness.
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“I like Karan's poems. They have a mix of imagination and substance that's very appealing to me...“the sky must hate us/ as it sees everything we do.” I'd like to have written that...I’m especially drawn to the combination of directness and privacy in his poems, and the creation of a world within a world."
— Bob Hicok
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“These poems are, no bullshit, the real deal. You are the real deal, Karan. You are a real poet.”
— Kaveh Akbar
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“This devastating poem explores gendered responses to grief, and vividly evokes the aftermath of a process of cremation in India, seen here from the inside, as it were, from a speaker both embedded in his culture and in some ways estranged from it.”
— Mark Doty