# Between Sure Places

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2015/12/11/between-sure-places/
- Published: 2015-12-11T03:28:50+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Anannya Dasgupta[⌊WP_20151130_13_41_32_Pro 1⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WP_20151130_13_41_32_Pro-1.jpg)
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Pages:** 68 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
112-0 (9789350451120)

_**About the Author**_
 Anannya Dasgupta was born in Patna in 1974 and grew up in
army cantonments in different parts of India, before her family permanently shifted
to Delhi. This is where she finished her schooling and most of her postgraduate 
education; she graduated from St Stephen’s College and completed her postgraduation
in the Faculty of Arts, Delhi University. She went on to do her Ph.D. in early modern
English drama at Rutgers University in the United States. At present, she lives 
in Greater Noida and teaches in the Department of English at Shiv Nadar University,
Uttar Pradesh. Apart from writing poetry, she is an art photographer and has had
exhibitions within and outside of India.

_**Teaser**_

_Comedy Club_

Last night, for the price of twelve
 dollars and two drinks, we laughed at the human
condition. Crammed

into tiny chairs, packed back to back
 with barely room for elbows as only ever 
New York City gets away with

seated paying customers, we listened.
 We could have been tentacles on a giant sleeping
sea animal. Anemones

sealed to a coral bed, swaying in the
 wriggle room that life leaves us, when we
are untying and tying ourselves

to people, to places, to things with a
 shocking regularity of forgetfulness about
how it works to be human. We

knew, of course, that the joke was on
 us for laughing. But comic after comic. for
the price of twelve dollars and two

drinks, reminded us that the joke was
 really on us – for living.

_**Contents**_
 51 poems