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World hotel / Reetika Vazirani.
Van Pelt Library PS3572.A985 W67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vazirani, Reetika.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Women authors.
- American poetry.
- East Indian Americans--Poetry.
- East Indian Americans.
- Genre:
- Poesía estadounidense -- Siglo XXI.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 121 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- In these memorable poems, Reetika Vazirani explores conflict: between mother and daughter, between lovers, between eastern and western cultures, between colonizers and the colonized. She tracks the long, difficult are of locating, losing, and relocating one's sense of home during a century marked by travel and emigration. An accomplished storyteller with a gift for lyric grace, her poems provide a unique and timely angle of perception. Through the use of a variety of masks and conversations, she gives voice to a world in which ethnicities are in a state of almost constant flux, a world particularly local and simultaneously cosmopolitan. Writing of Vazirani's first book, White Elephants (winner of the 1995 Barnard New Women Poets Prize), Grace Schulman said, "I admire the skill with which she creates poetry out of opposites: the sacred and the secular, exile and belonging, humor and wry sadness. Her poetry is a delight." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Hollywood and Hydroquinone
- Inventing Maya
- English
- Boarding
- Friday Mixer
- The Great Hall
- Tiffin for Tea, Lorry for Truck
- Chanel Lipstick
- The Bus North
- William's Visit
- May Queen
- Nudes
- It's Raining
- What I Was Thinking When He Didn't Write
- What My Best Friend Said to Console Me
- To Richmond and Back
- My Brother, the Wedding
- Going to See the Taj Mahal
- Maharaja of Patiala
- Pergola
- One Week in the Village
- Western-Trained in the Other World
- Aerogram Punjab
- Gina Lollobrigida
- Rahim Multani
- Daughters in the Morning
- The Lover
- Dream of the Evil Servant
- Pandavas' Gamble
- A Night on the Queen Mary
- Gardening: Hollywood Lane
- Ramayana
- Watching the News
- Beads on a Mala
- Quiet Death in a Red Closet
- Maya to Herself and Then to Her Gardener
- Letter to Jaipur
- Days in Punjab
- Seeta
- Boucheron, Shalimar, More Shoes
- Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta
- It's Me, I'm Not Home
- At the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture among Youth
- What to Look for in a Man
- A Winter Afternoon
- When I Was a Housewife
- No Complaints
- Type A
- Lullaby
- Beijing
- A Holiday at Home
- Confederate
- Personal Ads
- Nikos of Caravy Street
- Nikos at 42
- To Angelina from Nikos in His Old Age
- Laleh of Caravy Street
- Letter to the Moor
- Remembering Jean Rhys
- Hamlet out in the Night
- From the Postcard at Vertigo Books in D.C.
- Emigration
- No Sabotage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121).
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2003
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vazirani, Reetika. World hotel.
- ISBN:
- 1556591837
- 9781556591839
- OCLC:
- 50511397
- Online:
- Publisher description
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