Daughter Industry

Soham Patel is the author of all one in the end/water— (Delete Press, 2022), ever really hear it (Subito Press, 2018), winner of the Subito Prize, and to afar from afar (The Accomplices, 2018). They live in Blacksburg, Virginia where they run the graduate publishing certificate on the MFA faculty at Virginia Tech, teaching courses on literary magazines, small presses, and digital publications.

"The Daughter Industry is a fierce autopoetic in which cultural and sociopolitical scripts dance toward collision. Through a dazzling choral voice, Patel exposes the machinery built to vanish daughters and vanquish desire. Like an alchemist, Patel speculates, blends, and recomposes the elements until the truth arrives unruly, visionary, and gloriously singular in its force."—Airea Matthews"In The Daughter Industry, Soham Patel constructs a poetics of survival where each page feels like a laboratory. Theatrical forms, documentary forms, lipograms, redactions, concrete and visual forms, yogic forms: these experimental ways of creating serve as containers for those whose bodies circulate at the deadly intersection of technology, culture, politics, and biology. That there is pleasure in the sounds and rhythms and voices and shapes of this book is a testament to Patel’s vision."—Daniel Borzutzky"Soham Patel’s The Daughter Industry scorches as it provokes the reader into considering the effects and impacts of the continued erasure of girls, women, and the nonbinary actors in this seven-part choreopoem. The fearlessly brown voices claim space to counter cisheteropatriarchal logics through the dazzlement of voice and the myriad forms erupting from this necessary, timely, essential book."—Rajiv Mohabir"Poet Soham Patel joins the lineage of Shange, Lorde, and Anzaldúa in creating and naming a new form for womanist truth-telling. And like Zami, Borderlands, or For Colored Girls…this book cuts a new shape, ever-shifting. The Daughter Industry is funny, and swooningly beautiful to read aloud. It’s always surprising: hot, messy, breathing, erotic, laughing/sobbing—fully and fiercely alive in brilliant, heartbreaking realness."—Brenda Shaughnessy