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With staggering emotional honesty, Sharma confronts the sudden loss of her spouse to cancer.
List of contents
Contents ON SECLUSION AND LOOKING OUT
COMPLICATED SPIRITUAL GRIEF, PART 1
COMPLICATED SPIRITUAL GRIEF, PART 2
A HUMAN WITH FEELINGS
UNDER CLOUDS
SEVENTIES LITE & FOURTEEN JOYS & FOURTEEN FURIES
NOVEMBER 23, 2014
SEQUENCES
SEQUENCE 1
SEQUENCE 2
SEQUENCE 5
SEQUENCE 6
SEQUENCE 7
SEQUENCES WITH TITLES
PETTY SEQUENCES
BETWEEN SIGHS
MY POEM FOR MY STEPDAUGHTER
MY POEM ABOUT LAST SOUNDS
RETURNING TO OUR CREATION MYTH
MY POEM ABOUT FALSE FRIENDS
SETS OF THINGS
I LOOK AT YOUR HANDWRITING
MY SENSORIAL PROSE POEM
MOURNING
MY NATURE POEM
MY POEM ABOUT NEW FRIENDSHIP
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK & THE ELEGY
DREAMING WITHOUT KNOWING
MY POEM IN A POETRY HOLE WITH YOU
I COME SO TOGETHER WHERE YOU ARE
ABIDE
YOU LACK FALSEHOOD
MARCH WIND
YOUR HARD SURFACE LAYER
HERMETIC
SEATTLE SUN
THE FUNNY OPPOSITE
POETRY OBITUARY & NOTES
THE MOON HAS SET: POETRY OBITUARY
LESS MUSIC: NOTES ON POEMS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the author
Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections
Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019),
Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013),
Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007),
The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and
Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College.
Summary
With staggering emotional honesty, Prageeta Sharma confronts the sudden loss of her spouse to cancer.
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"It is clear that Sharma’s thick use of language explores the craft of poetry and what it does to the crafter, the poet. . . . Think of each poem as a wish, a possibility, or another way that could have been."—Janice Sapigao, Jacket2
"Sharma asks pressing questions about what is contained in the poetic ‘I,’ exploring where it transgresses and where it capitulates to expectation. Proceeding with a lyric, analytical, and oblique relationship to personal narrative, the poems enact the graceful ambivalence of Sharma’s statement that 'to find a salvageable concept/ in the word experience,/ we must embrace how it’s milky, how it’s unformed always.'"—Publishers Weekly
"Subtle and sharp as the needle capturing the starts and shifts of an imagination attentive to beauty and struggle, Sharma’s poems are never gloomy and always gleam."—The Volta,
"Staying alive and moving to its rhythms is a fine definition of Sharma’s poetry. I finished her book feeling lucky to be reading in an age when the technology is in place and Prageeta Sharma deft enough with it to produce this volume of truly charming, truly interesting poems."—Verse Magazine
