Praise for Arctic Play
“Arctic Play is both wildly experimental and completely confident in how it inhabits poetry, comics, collage, weaving, and playwriting.” ~ Aidan Koch, Spiral and Other Stories
"Mita Mahato’s Arctic Play is a trembling climate change chronicle that transports its reader to a place, a time, and a feeling. Words and images surface, submerge, disintegrate and reform. The page is a landscape, or an inventory, or an infrastructure, or a map, that brushes the hair from your eyes tenderly and would also kill you without a second thought." ~ Astrida Neimanis, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology
Prologue excerpt
Arctic Play comprises three acts. Each uses a different visual language to navigate the terrain of page and story. A prologue, voiced by two choruses, situates the reader to the circumstances of the book.