<p>Praise for <i>Coconut</i>:<br /><br />"<i>Coconut</i> is a book of conversation-starters. It prompts questions we didn’t realize we needed to ask and challenges those answers we thought we knew best. Here, readers will find a collection that is by turn tongue-in-cheek, full of rage and longing, contradictory, defiant, and bold. Patel invites us to embrace all these things, these confessions and confrontations alike, to engage with the political and the poetic, recognizing that in her hands, they are one and the same.”<br />~ Anuja Varghese, <i>Hamilton Review of Books</i><br /><br />"The table of contents of <i>Coconut</i> reads like a poem I wish I could write. Patel’s words collapse well-established defences into nothing but excuses. Poems entitled 'chai latte' and ‘father' are both gorgeous and gut wrenching, like a sunset over a tsunami. Readers will hold their breath. The exhale will not bring relief but rather, perspective.”<br />~ Rebecca Thomas, author of <i>I place you into the fire</i></p>