Bliss to Fill
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 193006800X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 50 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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And here, in the midst of love's intimacies, the poem is large and necessary, negotiating places and cultures, negotiating what it means to be relating across boundaries. Wright. Poetry. She pleasures us by her agile shifts in mood and her lithe twists of tongue. Her medium: loyalty; her climate: tender. This is a stunning collection."—Juliana Spahr"While others were writing software Prageeta Sharma was writing Dear ____ or BLISS TO FILL, a rhapsodic collection in which the poet uncannily braids the young and anticipatory with the elderly and elegantly alone. Asian American Studies. This is a delicately fierce book."—C. "The use of poetry in this day and age is for its lesson of relation. D. BLISS TO FILL is full of love poems, full of I and you and all their difficulties in getting along
A Customer said Hits the Spot!!. I found this book by accident, and it must have been kismet. Sharma's impressive poetry is coy, witty, and still completely soulful. A welcome refreshment--I can't wait to see a new collection of her work.. David Cohane said My new gift. I used this book in a class, and we enjoyed it so much I am going to assign it. It is my new gift, also, to friends and folks. Very exciting poetry, incredibly gifted new voice.. A. Davis said I think I must be lucky.. The poetry is wonderful; the person is great. I have the honor of working with her during the course of my studies. It's refreshing to read something contemporary that exudes warmth and engages the reader.
Sharma is associate professor and director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana. She is also the recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Grant. . The first-generation child of a South Asian immigrant family and a native of Framingham, Massachusetts, Prageeta Sharma is the author of BLISS TO FILL (Subpress, 2000), THE OPENING QUESTION (Fence Books, 2004; select
The first, "Dear _____," includes letters to a lover-like "Dearest echo," and to disheartened comsumers of Prageeta's poems; contemplates the arranged marriage of the poet's parents; and exhorts a "Politician Bird" "Do continue to free the clouds from the firm, plastic, earth." The second, "The Other Possibility," considers lifestyles like those of the multi-part "All-Purpose Rockstar" (where a poet taunts fans, and deploys "The song designed for situational/ dumbness"); of a bitter, bizarre "Girl Vendor" ("my spacecraft is more project-/ oriented than your spacecraft"); of "The Assassins"; and even a "Suburban Address." At once playful, ironic and affecting, this debut suggests that Sharma will "roll onward, to deviate, to leeward-I did have thrills/ or happily ate, or vigor caught me." (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. The book takes its t