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Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali?s summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch (?daayan?) hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications & shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author?s Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- & second-generation immigrants reconcile the self with the lineages that shape it, wondering aloud about those lineages? relationships to misogyny & violence. These precarious poems explore how antiquated & existing norms surrounding female mysticism in India & America inform each culture?s treatment of women. As Jericho Brown wrote of Shirali?s poetics in GILT, her ?comment on culture, on identity, on justice is her comment on poetry.? summonings is comment on power & patriarchy, on authorial privilege & the shifting role of