My latest full-length, In Residuum, arrives February 20th from Kith Books! 💜 For those who like discounts, pre-orders are open RIGHT NOW at kithbooks.com/shop/p/sanghvi 💜✨🔪
In Residuum is a collection of texts built from the frantically gathered residue of thoughts, drafts, literature, lost family history, the darkness and emptiness that tend to replace suppressed memories, and incomplete experiences. Together, these are all cultivated as a way of drawing the metaphysical and abstract from a number of writings, and letting the rest — a faded mass — slowly fall away. In this are truths — some personal, some general — otherwise invisible to the naked human eye. Moreover, in its visual elements and weaving of metatext, shadowtext, and blatant lack of regard for chronology or order, this is a book that can be read differently by each person no matter how many times they read it through.
![[im] mortal decline
I am demolished no longer vid and yet I am still wretch-ed still dwelling within//between my own wicked bones [djevolution
g into a stranger into valor these those days cons that brimmed with agony naivety and innocence I desperately seek anything to soften guided by the beams the ghastly voices ROARING of a thousand blazing winter suns in my head I wander cleanse the putrid blood pooling through the desert beneath my tongue entrapped in a dream but sometimes I find myself there stunned by the dual sensations of degeneration and in thellthis strange place degradation where the rest of my life began
I [t]here I find myself unable to trek my way over to achieve solace the city where my ribs are withering I first discovered coarse powder settling within the ability to dream this chest of mine and I gaze at the skyscrapers heavy [as] desert sand as they twinkle furthermore against a mountainous sunset my heart beats to I never needed to count the rhythm of stars when I was INFERNO here jolts of Hades' bliss because the buildings were tombed and thrashing bright and brilliant enough for me to see everything within my tender[ed] torso ever needed to observe my ominous fate comes for me now I held the world everlasting chasm of nothing in my still-young I shall morph into still-tender hands THAT which departs from preparing the forlorn corpse
to be lifted into (collapse) the unfathomable](https://i0.wp.com/amijsanghvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/img_4284.jpg?resize=731%2C1024&ssl=1)
An examination of colonization, classic, Renaissance, and medieval European texts, the role of ancient languages (Sanskrit and Pankrit) in religion, prayer, family, and modern poetics, C-PTSD, psychosis, mental illness, sexual, domestic, emotional, mental, and physical abuse trauma, intergenerational trauma, sexuality, gender, patriarchy, culture, ancestry, and 4D spaces, In Residuum is an encapsulation of countless items and ideas forged together in an attempt to create something greater and stronger — something honest and potentially hopeful. The pieces are all fractured and mismatched, just as mine are, but all the same, even in all the ways they grind and splinter against each other, this messiness and chaos works together among, within, between, and around itself to form something somewhat whole. In other words, this book is my humble attempt at the portrait of a survivor. In it, I use my rawest, most vulnerable, most sabotaged, and most slaughtered self for reference.
![Specializing in badass hybrid work and subversion of western literary expectations, Ami J. Sanghvi continues to utilize language as an artistic medium with In Residuum. Technological word processors may "insist all [their] words are wrong, but there is always something invigorating about Sangvhi's work that Microsoft Word could never possibly hope to understand, as well as a perpetually unerring sense of both aesthetics and poetics..
nat raum, eic of fifth wheel press and author
of the fine line + you stupid slut](https://i0.wp.com/amijsanghvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/img_4283.jpg?resize=731%2C1024&ssl=1)
— nat raum, eic of fifth wheel press and author
of the fine line + you stupid slut
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