summoningsABOUT Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali's summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch ("daayan") hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications & shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author's Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first & second generation