The Opening Question
April 2004
Trade Paperback · 60 Pages
$12.00 U.S. · $14.00 CAN
ISBN 9780974090900
Fence Books
Trade Paperback · 60 Pages
$12.00 U.S. · $14.00 CAN
ISBN 9780974090900
Fence Books
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Description
Prageeta Sharma's poems offer the reader an unusually modern take on modernity. Her effective program of whimsy, identity, and loneliness—a singularly modern loneliness, replete with the anxiety of community and the despair of belonging—transforms the simple declarations and observations into the stuff of myth.
About the Author
PRAGEETA SHARMA received an MFA in Poetry from Brown University, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize, and an MA in Media Studies from The New School. Sharma's parents came to the US from India in 1969; she was born in 1972 and grew up in Massachusetts. Sharma teaches at Cambridge College in Massachusetts and resides in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Agni, Fence, and The Women's Review of Books.