# When the Flowers Begin to Speak

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- Published: 2022-01-04T00:38:49+00:00
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**Author: **Sonali Pattnaik[⌊A sample cover of the book: dark red coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/When-the-Flowers-Begin-to-Speak-scaled-1.jpeg)
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Pages:** 152 **Year of Publication:** 2021 **Price:** Rs 400 **ISBN:** 978-81-953583-
4-2 (9788195358342)

_**About the Author**_
 Sonali Pattnaik has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Mumbai
University and has taught the subject for over a decade to graduate and postgraduate
students across the country. Her areas of expertise include literary theory, film
studies and gender studies. She currently serves on the Board of Studies for English,
as well as Guest Faculty, at St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, and divides her time
between writing, practising visual art, academics and homeschooling her daughter.

Her poetry and art have found place most recently in two print anthologies by Indie
Blu(e), USA, _The Kali Project_ (2021) and _Through the Looking Glass_ (2021), and
in a forthcoming book by Wingword Poetry Competition for their winning entries. 
They have also been published in literary journals like _Café Dissensus _(New York),
_Muse India, The Book Review _and_ The Indian Express _newspaper. This is her first
book of poetry.

_**Teaser**_

_most, many, few_

few will ask of the wrongdoer
 why they did wrong fewer will ask of witnesses why
they stood back watching many will ask the survivor why they took the wrongdoing.
most will ask these questions: why did you wait so long to leave? why do you feel
you can speak out now? why don’t you consider the consequences of your speaking 
out on the wrongdoer? why don’t you speak out, why don’t you leave? why this way.
why they. why you. why now. most, many, few but of your violence, only you and most
will believe they are the greater common good

_**Contents**_
 79 poems spread across 4 sections