Influences on her writing include Jayanta Mahapatra,[6] Kamala Das, Adrienne Rich, Walt Whitman, and Galway Kinnell,[30] as well as Toru Dutt, Lalithambika Antherjanam, Sarojini Naidu, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Gloria Anzaldua, Leslie Marmon Silko, Assia Djebar, Edouard Glissant, Nawal El Sadaawi, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.[7] In 2014, she discussed the influence of John Donne, John Berryman, Emily Dickinson, and Matsuo Bashō on her work.[31]
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