Praise for Curb

Divya Victor’s vigorously researched hybrid work expertly shows how the discrimination embedded in American social practices acts against the South Asian community to devastating effect. …Lyric poems blend with journalistic narrative to transform documentation into artful revelation.

Jaquira Díaz, Rigoberto González, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Khadijah Queen
Judges Citation, PEN America Open Book Award

Layered, rich, and epic, Curb is an incredible collection that must be read and re-read.

Cathy Park Hong

Always at the edge of war and friendship, Curb reminds us that in brutality we still manage to lift, salvage, hold the beautiful things, not least of which each other.

Julietta Singh, for The Millions

Curb… is a profound act of poetic debridement for the South Asian American diaspora, and an insistent plea to resist erasure by first acknowledging, absorbing, processing, and remembering our own communal histories.

Jenny Bhat, for NPR

In poems of brilliant aesthetic diversity and haunting imagery, Curb illuminates and challenges the boundaries that divide and discipline us.

Evie Shockley, for NPR

This is an incredibly well-crafted collection by a globally minded, locally rooted, exceedingly brilliant poet.

Booklist, starred review

DIVYA VICTOR