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- Herausgeber: Loving Healing Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Serie: World Voices
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010
About the Author
Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer and marketing professional living in New York City. She is the author of Because All Is Not Lost from Modern History Press and the co-author of Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi (Cyberwit 2010). Her work has appeared in six countries across three continents. Sweta has held recent artist residencies and workshops in Portugal, Ireland, and several within USA. She is a graduate of Columbia University.
"In this innovative series, Sweta Srivastava Vikram re-appropriates color. Cultures and mythologies collide along the way, and the result is a chapbook that feels like a quest. In the end, the colors are a map to identity. The child's pink tonsils or the bride's red sari are not symbols, but rather mile markers. Like Vikram's poems, they lead toward understanding"
--Erica Wright, Senior Poetry Editor, Guernica
About the Chapbook
The book delves into the implication and philosophy of colors from a Hindu woman's point of view, from birth until death. The color she adorns herself with almost depicts the story of her life. Expressed through different poetic and verbal forms, each color in the book has its own tone and is specific to different age groups.
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Kaleidoscope
An Asian Journey of Colors
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
from the World Voices Series
Modern History Press
Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors
Copyright (c) 2011 by Sweta Srivastava Vikram. All Rights Reserved
From the World Voices Series
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vikram, Sweta Srivastava, 1975-
Kaleidoscope : an Asian journey of colors, a chapbook of poetry /Sweta Srivastava Vikram.
p. cm. -- (World voices; bk. 2)
ISBN-13: 978-1-61599-034-4 (trade paper : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-61599-034-8 (trade paper : alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS3622.I493K35 2010
811'.6--dc22
2010007705
Distributed by Ingram Book Group, Bertram’s Books (UK), Hachette Livre (France).
Published by Modern History Press
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an Imprint of Loving Healing Press
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For my nieces,Diya and Sana
“Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”
Oscar Wilde
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Epoch
Genesis
Innocence Comes In Pink
I Am Cleopatra
Poetry in Flowers
Identity Ambiguous: A combination of red and yellow
Wedding Of An Emotional Virgin
Cryptographic
Rancid Brown
The Talisman
The Color of Conception
The Sacred One
Perennial Utopia
Aging With Beige
Time Traveled
The Dark Night
Horoscope
Reflecting on Iridescence in Mama’s Wardrobe
Epilogue
About the Author
Foreword
Sweta Srivastava Vikram’s chapbook Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors is so aptly named it makes one wish no one had ever named a club, magazine, or store after a kaleidoscope before. In her hands, the kaleidoscope is not a vague metaphor. One can almost hear the clicking of colored crystals as they fall into different arrangements, each poem dazzling, reshaped, and full of jagged ambiguities.
