Saraswati's Lament - Roether, Barbara
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Saraswati's Lament conjures the Hindu goddess of poetry, in forms both sacred and profane; exploring how she speaks of every woman who questions what it means to love and create. Written over the course of a year spent alone in Bali, the poems here are part travelogue, part folktale, and part personal inquiry into the nature of marriage and exile. Weaving together images from traditional Balinese literature with contemporary scenes of the island's exploitation by the tourist industry, Saraswati's Lament questions what we lose and what we gain, when we leave our history behind.

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Saraswati's Lament conjures the Hindu goddess of poetry, in forms both sacred and profane; exploring how she speaks of every woman who questions what it means to love and create. Written over the course of a year spent alone in Bali, the poems here are part travelogue, part folktale, and part personal inquiry into the nature of marriage and exile. Weaving together images from traditional Balinese literature with contemporary scenes of the island's exploitation by the tourist industry, Saraswati's Lament questions what we lose and what we gain, when we leave our history behind.
Autorenporträt
Barbara Roether is a writer and teacher recently exiled from San Francisco to Asheville, North Carolina, where she now hosts a literary reading series. She is the author of the novel This Earth You'll Come Back To (McPherson & Company) and a poetry collection, The Middle Atlas. She frequently reviews books, and writes of faraway places whenever she can, a travelogue of Japan is forthcoming. For many years she worked in book publishing as an editor and created the series Signs of the Sacred with Harper Collins Publishers. There is more information on her website BarbaraRoether.com.