Dharma Rasa

Dharma Rasa

Paperback (18 Feb 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 intertwines English and Punjabi, life in Canada and life in India, past and present, myth and imagination. The reader is invited to accompany Gill as she reads the love letters her father wrote to her mother; travels to British Columbia on the CPR Steamship Empress of Japan; visits the streets of New Dehli and Benares; and relives her family's struggles and challenges as they try to make a home in a new land.Lush and lyrical, powerful and evocative, Gill's words will sing to you long after you've finished her last poem.

Book information

ISBN: 9780889711709
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Imprint: Nightwood Editions
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 108
Weight: 285g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 7mm