Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer Rader throws off sparks from

Rader throws off sparks from first to last here

Should we look to our poets as our most articulate analysts and critics of these times

[The Hottest Summer in Recorded History] is an exercise in form equaling content: a poet's Holy Grail

He writes to the memory of Oka

BISAC Subject(s): FICTION / Indigenous / General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or Native American)

Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer Rader throws off sparks fromDescription Rasa theory, part of Indian genre theory and Sanskritic poetics, describes an elaborate typology of nine essences or emotions, ranging from adbhuta (wonder) to raudra (fury) to karuna (sorrow) to santa (serentity). This first collection of poetry by Kuldip Gill is rich with these emotions. Gill, a Sikh woman who immigrated to Canada in 1939, creates poems that open different worlds as they inform and fascinate. This is a poetics that