🪶Book Review🪶

 "A body remembers what words cannot, and in Drishti Dutta’s poems, silence learns to speak.”

Drishti Dutta’s Between Ink and Skin is a debut that feels anything but tentative. It’s a collection that lingers, asking the reader not just to observe but to inhabit the textures of identity, memory, and survival.

With a voice at once tender and unflinching, Dutta confronts what it means to carry histories—familial, cultural, and bodily—within oneself.

The poems move fluidly between personal confession and wider cultural reckoning. There is an intimacy to the language, as though each line is whispered in trust, but also a fierce clarity that refuses to soften political grief or the raw edges of selfhood.

Themes of womanhood, body image, and love—fractured and reclaimed—are handled with a disarming honesty that makes even the quietest pieces feel charged with urgency.

What stands out most is the balance between vulnerability and resistance. Dutta does not shy away from inherited silences, but neither does she allow them to define her work. Instead, her poems carve space for quiet rebellions—the small acts of survival that accumulate into a reclamation of self.

Between Ink and Skin is both brave and necessary. It speaks to those who have struggled with the weight of expectation, the politics of the body, and the search for a voice in spaces that demand silence.

More than anything, it leaves the reader with a sense of recognition—an affirmation that the act of writing, like the act of living, is both wound and salve.

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