"A new book by Prageeta Sharma, the author of Undergloom, Infamous Landscapes, The Opening Question, and Bliss to Fill"--
Offering a series of poems rooted in the profoundly narrative yet disorienting experience of losing a loved one, Prageeta Sharma, in Grief Sequence, summons all of her resources in order to attempt any semblance, poetic or otherwise, of clear sense in trauma. In doing so she shows that grief, frustrating to logic and yet as real as any experience we might know, is ripe for the sort of intellectual and emotional processing of which poetry is most capable.
With staggering emotional honesty, Prageeta Sharma confronts the sudden loss of her spouse to cancer.
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Contents
ON SECLUSION AND LOOKING OUT
COMPLICATED SPIRITUAL GRIEF, PART 1
COMPLICATED SPIRITUAL GRIEF, PART 2
A HUMAN WITH FEELINGS
UNDER CLOUDS
SEVENTIES LITE & FOURTEEN JOYS & FOURTEEN FURIES
NOVEMBER 23, 2014
SEQUENCES
SEQUENCE 1
SEQUENCE 2
SEQUENCE 5
SEQUENCE 6
SEQUENCE 7
SEQUENCES WITH TITLES
PETTY SEQUENCES
BETWEEN SIGHS
MY POEM FOR MY STEPDAUGHTER
MY POEM ABOUT LAST SOUNDS
RETURNING TO OUR CREATION MYTH
MY POEM ABOUT FALSE FRIENDS
SETS OF THINGS
I LOOK AT YOUR HANDWRITING
MY SENSORIAL PROSE POEM
MOURNING
MY NATURE POEM
MY POEM ABOUT NEW FRIENDSHIP
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK & THE ELEGY
DREAMING WITHOUT KNOWING
MY POEM IN A POETRY HOLE WITH YOU
I COME SO TOGETHER WHERE YOU ARE
ABIDE
YOU LACK FALSEHOOD
MARCH WIND
YOUR HARD SURFACE LAYER
HERMETIC
SEATTLE SUN
THE FUNNY OPPOSITE
POETRY OBITUARY & NOTES
THE MOON HAS SET: POETRY OBITUARY
LESS MUSIC: NOTES ON POEMS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award, she recently became the Henry G. Lee 37 Professor of English at Pomona College.
