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Everyday Flowers
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9781732053359
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: Aug 10 2018
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
If you've wondered how it must feel to be a stranger in a strange land, Kalpana Asok tells you in these gentle poems. Gentle, but with a hint of irony, as when, in the voice of a new arrival, an Indian woman introduces herself to a new American neighbor, and then, in an almost footnoted last line that lets us know she was never invited into the house: Dear Ethel, Thank you for the lemonade
and the visits on your porch. The feeling of dislocation surfaces sharply in another, when she asks, My mother's in my mirror/is she walled in/am I locked out . . . . Vivid images greet us throughout, as she explores, wide-eyed, this new world, where a chatty American wears a different baseball cap every day and is full of information. The gentle voice rises in indignation in strong, tightly crafted poems about social injustice, as in I Can't Breathe, with a first stanza ending in Yes, metoo. Remembering or perhaps dreaming, she gives us a Tiger Preserve, with a Lurching blind-drunk female /in the middle of the day/Slapping holy ground . . . . The gentle voice returns in this lovely debut collection, ending with a lullaby, Tenderly, in hummed syllables: Umhmm, --Irene Willis
hmmm hmm hmm . . . . Read it with delight and continued discovery.
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