We are pleased to announce that Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful by Rohan Chhetri is now available for pre-order! This stunning collection won the 2018 Kundiman Poetry Prize and will be released by Tupelo Press in September 2021. This prize honors exceptional work by Asian American poets and was selected by the artistic staff of Kundiman and the editors of Tupelo Press.

As described by Tupelo Press’s Editor-in-Chief Kristina Marie Darling in the Judge’s Citation, “In Rohan Chhetri’s Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful, inherited literary forms— the ode, the lyric, and pristine tercets— are juxtaposed with gorgeously fractured and stylistically daring hybrid pieces. The end result is a work in which poetic technique is brought to bear on lingering questions of identity, artistic tradition, and the cruelty implicit in language itself.”

Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, said that this collection, “…has pain and it has discovery. It has wonder. It has the spell of a story and the effortlessness of a song.”

Pre-order your copy here!