Scarred with remembering, Kanika Lawton’s Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body tiptoes the knowingly ineffable relationship between body with mind, the physical and the internal.
In six short—but no less impactful—poems, Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body burns as well as soothes, reflects with no mirror, and teaches without instruction.
In six short—but no less impactful—poems, Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body burns as well as soothes, reflects with no mirror, and teaches without instruction.
"Recounting, in stages, the pain memories cause, Kanika Lawton’s Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body will imprison you in hindsight, and make the past disappear like smoke. Unapologetic in its comfort with the body, Lawton will transport you to a self buried years ago, a reminder that regression makes us human. Lawton will have you craving 2013, if only for a moment, before taking away your phone and wiping away your tears." - Benjamin Rozzi, writer and editor
"Lawton’s poetry reads defiantly. In the face of the lingering pain from a poor relationship, these poems address the lack of and desire for self-love that Lawton’s narrator grapples with throughout. She calls to the animal, images of ones we might deem ugly—oysters, pigs, mussels—but in reality are necessary, important, continuously desired, and even treasured, by a select few, in order to illustrate this." - Terry Abrahams for wildness
Kanika Lawton doesn’t shy away from the gross in the human experience — vomit, loneliness, regret, sex, the hard conversations at 3 am in someone’s car, tears, sweat, unease. Everything is literal and everything is a metaphor." - Kat Taylor for Anomaly
"Lawton’s poetry reads defiantly. In the face of the lingering pain from a poor relationship, these poems address the lack of and desire for self-love that Lawton’s narrator grapples with throughout. She calls to the animal, images of ones we might deem ugly—oysters, pigs, mussels—but in reality are necessary, important, continuously desired, and even treasured, by a select few, in order to illustrate this." - Terry Abrahams for wildness
Kanika Lawton doesn’t shy away from the gross in the human experience — vomit, loneliness, regret, sex, the hard conversations at 3 am in someone’s car, tears, sweat, unease. Everything is literal and everything is a metaphor." - Kat Taylor for Anomaly
