Description 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.
Annotation With staggering emotional honesty, Sharma confronts the sudden loss of her spouse to cancer.
About the Author Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, forthcoming), 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.
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