Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey with Colors
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About the Author
Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer and marketing professional living in New York City. She is the author of Because All Is Not Lost from Modern History Press and the co-author of Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi (Cyberwit 2010). Her work has appeared in six countries across three continents. Sweta has held recent artist residencies and workshops in Portugal, Ireland, and several within USA. She is a graduate of Columbia University.
"In this innovative series, Sweta Srivastava Vikram re-appropriates color. Cultures and mythologies collide along the way, and the result is a chapbook that feels like a quest. In the end, the colors are a map to identity. The child's pink tonsils or the bride's red sari are not symbols, but rather mile markers. Like Vikram's poems, they lead toward understanding"
--Erica Wright, Senior Poetry Editor, Guernica
About the Chapbook
The book delves into the implication and philosophy of colors from a Hindu woman's point of view, from birth until death. The color she adorns herself with almost depicts the story of her life. Expressed through different poetic and verbal forms, each color in the book has its own tone and is specific to different age groups.
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
Sweta Srivastava Vikram (www.swetavikram.com) is an award-winning poet, writer, novelist, author, essayist, columnist, educator, and blogger. Born in India, Sweta spent her formative years between India, North Africa, and the United States. She is the author of three chapbooks of poetry ("Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors," "Because All is Not Lost," and "Beyond the Scent of Sorrow") two collaborative collections of poetry ("Not All Birds Sing" and "Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi"), a novel ("Perfectly Untraditional"), a nonfiction book of prose and poems ("Mouth full" upcoming in 2012), and a full-length collection of poems ("No Ocean Here" upcoming in 2013). Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, literary journals, and online publications across six countries in three continents.
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Kaleidoscope - Sweta Srivastava Vikram
Kaleidoscope
An Asian Journey of Colors
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
from the World Voices Series
Modern History Press
Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors
Copyright (c) 2011 by Sweta Srivastava Vikram. All Rights Reserved
From the World Voices Series
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vikram, Sweta Srivastava, 1975-
Kaleidoscope : an Asian journey of colors, a chapbook of poetry /
Sweta Srivastava Vikram.
p. cm. -- (World voices; bk. 2)
ISBN-13: 978-1-61599-034-4 (trade paper : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-61599-034-8 (trade paper : alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS3622.I493K35 2010
811'.6--dc22
2010007705
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