Dear Life

A daring affirmation of the beauty and wonder of life in the face of all the negatives we can summon, personal and historical as daring as Keats' affirmation of beauty a year before his death, as broad as Whitman's celebrations, not forgetting his ironic celebration of the sale of a a slave, and as willing to confront the depths of modern misery as found in the work of Primo Levi. Acharya brings a broad poetics to bear drawn from her Indian heritage and long career in Great Britain, deepene...