Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, Zilka Joseph (Mayapple, February 2024)
Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, Zilka Joseph (Mayapple, February 2024)

Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? Sweet Malida is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short prose inspired by this ancient community to which the poet herself belongs.

Mattress Makers, Sasenarine Persaud (Mawenzi House, June 2023)
Mattress Makers, Sasenarine Persaud (Mawenzi House, June 2023)

This new collection of poetry celebrates the music in the seemingly mundane. Imbued with a deeply philosophical consciousness, and the questioning spirit of the ancients, it engages in the pleasures of technology, while ever cognizant of its drawbacks in its assault on the personal. As always, with this poet, there is an Upanishadic, yogic, and quantum search for truth and the essence of reality—the ancient Indian concepts of multiplicity, multipresence, and simultaneous existences finding support in cutting- edge quantum physics.

The All-Seeing Eye: Collected Poems, Shang Qin (Cambria Press, November 2021)
The All-Seeing Eye: Collected Poems, Shang Qin, John Balcom (trans) (Cambria Press, November 2021)

Shang Qin (1930–2010) is widely considered one of the most influential and original modern Chinese poets. His critical acclaim was earned not only as a modern master of the prose poem but also as one of Taiwan’s leading surrealist poets. This book is the largest selection of his poetry available in English.