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 has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College.
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
