Publisher's Synopsis
"Sweta Vikram captures bold raw passion, poignant reality and crafts a powerful voice for the voiceless."
--Kate Campbell Stevenson, Actor & Producer
--Slash Coleman, author of The Bohemian Love Diaries and blogger for Psychology Today. "Sweta's poems did a powerful job at highlighting the mental and sexual abuse, violence, loneliness and the pain experienced by millions of widows in India. Why I ask, is being a widow a crime?"
--Shruti Kapoor, Founder of Sayfty, an organization that helps women protect themselves against violence "In a gorgeous choir of reclaimed voices, Sweta Srivastava Vikram tells the stories of women forgotten and passed over, women silenced and without choices, women who 'don't exist'--Hindu widows. Through the magical breath of her poetry Vikram not only animates these women's hopes, sorrows, dreams, and defeats, she lovingly restores them to honor."
--Melissa Studdard, award-winning author of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast. Learn more at www.SwetaVikram.com
From the World Voices series at Modern History Press
POE005060 Poetry: American - Asian American
SOC028000 Social Science: Women's Studies - General
FAM001000 Family & Relationships: Abuse - General