Tag: Poems

  • Lambi Judaai – Reshma

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    Lambi Judaai – Reshma Lambi Judaai – Reshma Reshma was born in Bikaner, Rajasthan to a Banjara (Gypsy) family around 1947. She did not receive any formal education and spent much of her childhood singing at the mazars (shrines) of the mystic saints of Sindh. She once said in an interview, “I was born in a family of saudagars (traders) in…

  • The Gorgeous Nothings

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    In the New Republic, Hillary Kelley reviews The Gorgeous Nothings, a facsimile collection of the poems Emily Dickinson composed. …to merely call The Gorgeous Nothings, and the envelope poems within it, beautiful, would do a disservice to Marta Werner and Jen Bervin’s remarkable artistic and scholarly achievement. Bervin and Werner avoid the pitfalls of earlier editors and refuse to…