Sita's Choice by Kashyap, Athena

Sita's Choice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781622889051)

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Sita's Choice by Kashyap, Athena

Sita's Choice

$18.00
Sita's Choice by Kashyap, Athena

Sita's Choice

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Athena Kashyap's newest collection, Sita's Choice, explores issues relating to women, especially in India. Taking off from Sita, the main female character in the Ramayana, explores her decision to leave her husband, Ram, and return to her mother, Earth. These mythical and magical poems examine the duality of nature, the sacrifices women make daily, and the deeper societal ills such as female foeticide, dowry deaths, violence against women, and the role of the media, "Ravan's hundred thousand eyes," in perpetuating this violence. The book also explores motherhood through poems that look at the mother-child bond, "the formless, uncharted shape of love," as well as the pain of childbirth, "It rises--multi-hued, magnificent."

Author: Athena Kashyap
ISBN-10: 1622889053
ISBN-13: 9781622889051
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2018
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d
By Athena Kashyap
By Athena Kashyap
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ATHENA KASHYAP is a poet and has a MFA and MA from San Francisco State University and University of California at Davis. Her poetry has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Quiddity, Sanskriti, The Fourth River among other journals, and has also been widely anthologized in the U.S. and U.K.

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