Inside Violence Violence Inside - Softcover

Raju, Lovely

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963245105 ISBN 13: 9781963245103

Publisher: Flowersong Press, 2025

Synopsis

Inside Violence Violence Inside is a lyrical cartography of harm and tenderness where the body shelters both, and a voice learns to live between them.

Greatly inspired by the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School, Lovely Raju's poetry collection does not cease at the sound of gunfire. These poems also confront domestic ruptures and reveal how violence echoes through households, landscapes, and memory itself.

Divided into four mirrored movements (Inside / Violence / Violence / Inside), the collection becomes a study-and perhaps a remedial study-of violence: a search for resolution in existing trauma, for justice for a half-dead mother, and for language strong enough to bear exhaustion. Along the way, the reader encounters a deer licking a window, angels in a neighborhood park, a sapling lost to a storm, and two women-one in hijab, one nearly bare-radiant as "flowers emitting the aroma of a morning sun."

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About the Author

Lovely Raju is a poet originally from Bangladesh whose work moves through the intersections of science, environment, and human experience. He holds a BS in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Rajshahi. Driven by an enduring passion for language and storytelling, he pursued an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame, a journey that allowed him to deepen both his voice and his vision as a poet. While at Notre Dame, he worked as an assistant editor at Action Books, an international press dedicated to innovative poetry and translation. He is currently pursuing a PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Raju's poetry explores ecopoetry, social justice poetry, and dream poetry, weaving together questions of environment, memory, and transformation. His debut full-length collection, HOPE (Finishing Line Press), traces paths of resilience and renewal. His second collection, Inside Violence Violence Inside (FlowerSong Press), probes the haunting circulations of violence and tenderness, where love, dread, and survival blur into one another. His work has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize nomination. You can find him on Instagram at @ppp_lovely_raju/

Edition details

• Publisher: Flowersong Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963245105
• ISBN 13: 9781963245103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98