{"id":5989,"date":"2014-12-23T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T02:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=5989"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:25:10","slug":"prathna-lor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/prathna-lor\/","title":{"rendered":"Prathna Lor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prathna Lor recently completed a PhD in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.  Lor’s dissertation is titled “Unthinkable Subjects: Postmortem Poetics in Modernity.” Their second poetry chapbook 7, 2 <\/em>(Toronto: Knife Fork Books) was published in 2019. Lor is the poetry editor at the Canadian online literary journal Shrapnel Magazine<\/em><\/a>.  They live in Montreal, QC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

7, 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Knife Fork Book, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Prathna Lor’s second poetry chapbook joins oblique objects with the tender edges of parataxis and longing. 7,2 <\/em>is full of the solidity of the hard-won image: inside one finds tiny carnages mixed with rejuvenation; the tickle of epiphany narrowly escaped; the freshness of a syntax hardly worn. Here is a lesson in the benevolent contradiction of how speaking hurt nourishes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Emanations: Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hamilton: Wolsak & Wynn, 2022.
PS8623.O7 E43 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In Prathna Lor\u2019s first full-length collection we are introduced to a unique voice in Canadian poetry. Moving fluidly between prose poems and more fractured, open verse, Lor meditates on voice, on disaster and on identity, pushing always against commodification, against a consumable narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2023 Lambda Literary Awards–Transgender Poetry (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ventriloquism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Portland, OR: Future Tense Books, 2010.
Also available as a Kindle e-book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lor’s quick stories are both darkly funny and emotionally unsettling, with a style that focuses heavily on amazing sentences and sexually ambiguous undertones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Kevin Sampsell, an editor at Future Tense Books observed in a blogpost that: “Ventriloquism<\/em> features works that do that wondrous thing I love so much\u2013when a piece of writing feels so fresh and original that you\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s prose poetry or flash fiction. It\u2019s beautifully uncategorizable, with body parts flitting their way through deeper emotions that Lor\u2019s language tries to dissect with grace and force and unexpected humour.”  Cf. http:\/\/htmlgiant.com\/tag\/prathna-lor\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prathna Lor personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Future Tense Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Knife Fork Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Wolsak & Wynn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prathna Lor recently completed a PhD in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.  Lor’s dissertation is titled “Unthinkable Subjects: Postmortem Poetics in Modernity.” Their second poetry chapbook 7, 2 (Toronto: Knife Fork Books) was published in 2019. Lor … Continue reading →<\/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-5989","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18610,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5989\/revisions\/18610"}],"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=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}