/english/ en /english/2025/03/12/whale-aria-rajiv-mohabir <span>Whale Aria by Rajiv Mohabir</span> <span><span>Isabel Beeman</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-03-12T23:11:43-06:00" title="Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 23:11">Wed, 03/12/2025 - 23:11</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/english/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-03/whalearia.jpg?h=6131b5e3&amp;itok=b3z4qsL7" width="1200" height="800" alt="Whale Aria"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/english/taxonomy/term/71"> Creative Writing Publications </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/english/taxonomy/term/542" hreflang="en">creative</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 2"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-left col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle large_image_style"> <img loading="lazy" src="/english/sites/default/files/styles/large_image_style/public/2025-03/whalearia.jpg?itok=Zchmivnu" width="1500" height="2249" alt="Whale Aria"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div><blockquote class="ucb-article-blockquote"> <div class="ucb-article-blockquote-text"> <div>"'For seasons I was faceless // trying to swallow constellations, / to roll a star-map on my tongue,' recounts Rajiv Mohabir’s speaker in “Boy with Baleen for Teeth.” As formally visionary and acoustically attuned as ever, Mohabir has composed an interspecies opera in Whale Aria. This collection examines the humpback whale as a zoomorphic analog of the queer, brown, migratory speaker breaching these pages; just as a person navigates postcolonial queerness across geopolitical boundaries, traveling from India to Guyana to London to New York to Honolulu, these singular cetaceans wander through disparate waters."</div> </div></blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:11:43 +0000 Isabel Beeman 3128 at /english