{"id":19940,"date":"2025-04-11T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=19940"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:54:59","slug":"hari-alluri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/hari-alluri\/","title":{"rendered":"Hari Alluri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Hari Alluri identifies as an uninvited migrant poet of Philippine and South Indian descent living, writing, and working on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and Ts\u2019uubaa-asatx lands of Hul\u2019q\u2019umi\u2019num-speaking peoples (Vancouver, BC). Alluri immigrated to Canada when he was twelve. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carving Ashes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamploops: CiCAC\/Thompson Rivers Press, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"320\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/The-Flayed-City-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19952 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/The-Flayed-City-book-cover.jpg 220w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/The-Flayed-City-book-cover-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/The-Flayed-City-book-cover-103x150.jpg 103w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 220px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 220\/320;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Flayed City<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Flayed City<\/em>, Alluri gives an intimate glimpse into  the lives of city dwellers and immigrants, imagining the souls that reside in &#8220;broom-filled nights&#8221;, &#8220;skyscrapers for buoys&#8221;, and under an &#8220;aluminum rising sun&#8221;. The charged poems in <em>The Flayed City<\/em> sweep together &#8220;an archipelago song&#8221; scored by memory and landscape, history and mythology, desire and loss. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"600\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Our-Echo-of-Sudden-Mercy-chapbook-cover-390x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19958 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 390px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 390\/600;width:129px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Our-Echo-of-Sudden-Mercy-chapbook-cover-390x600.jpg 390w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Our-Echo-of-Sudden-Mercy-chapbook-cover-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Our-Echo-of-Sudden-Mercy-chapbook-cover-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Our-Echo-of-Sudden-Mercy-chapbook-cover-768x1182.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Our-Echo-of-Sudden-Mercy-chapbook-cover-998x1536.jpg 998w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Our-Echo-of-Sudden-Mercy-chapbook-cover.jpg 1170w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Echo of Sudden Mercy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>San Antonio: Next Page Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Our Echo of Sudden Mercy<\/em> searches for the tenuous places where grief and joy entwine. At turns meditative, irreverent, and tender, the poems trace these threads through multiple forms of loss\u2014personal and familial, cultural and planetary, quiet and violent\u2014by encountering and moving through the everyday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Promise of Rust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>El Paso: Mouthfeel Press, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"218\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Tabako-on-the-Windowsill-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19942 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Tabako-on-the-Windowsill-book-cover.jpg 147w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2025\/04\/Tabako-on-the-Windowsill-book-cover-101x150.jpg 101w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 147px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 147\/218;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tabako on the Windowsill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kingston: Brick Books, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>To shape an entire book around portals and thresholds is to search for living myth. Hari Alluri\u2019s poems build from comic books, television, paintings, folklore, music, and a unique imagination. Following an immigrant point of view while maintaining home in a language that engages with blood and chosen family, Alluri offers multiple lived and ancestral spaces in India, the Philippines, Nigeria, the U.S., and Canada. Guided by a burning attention \u2013 to braids of displacement, loss, and joy, to multiple beginnings \u2013 Alluri creates moments where we can expand through the personhood of perception into wider, overlapping worlds of perspective and possibility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"218\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/12\/Magdaragat-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17071 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/12\/Magdaragat-book-cover.jpg 141w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2023\/12\/Magdaragat-book-cover-97x150.jpg 97w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 141px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 141\/218;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2023.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01OCUL_TMU\/1pfebod\/alma991005759759708636\">PS8235.F55 M34 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hari Alluri <a href=\"https:\/\/harialluri.com\">personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickbooks.ca\">Brick Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/kaya.com\/\">Kaya Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mouthfeelbooks.com\/\">Mouthfeel Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/nextpage-press.com\">Next Page Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hari Alluri identifies as an uninvited migrant poet of Philippine and South Indian descent living, writing, and working on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and Ts\u2019uubaa-asatx lands of Hul\u2019q\u2019umi\u2019num-speaking peoples (Vancouver, BC). Alluri immigrated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/hari-alluri\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19940"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19961,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19940\/revisions\/19961"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}