New Book Announcement: “Monsoon on the Fingers of God” by Sasenarine Persaud

Monsoon on the Fingers of God, Sasenarine Persaud (Mawenzi House, July 2018)
Monsoon on the Fingers of God,
Sasenarine Persaud (Mawenzi House, July 2018)

Using the 2014 Scottish referendum to separate from the UK as a touchstone, this book examines the fluidity of identity and tensions regarding languages and belonging in a modern, global world where peoples, ideas and cultures migrate and interact on a scale never before seen in human history. Drawing on the flux of the 180 years presence of the Indo-Caribbean community, twice shipwrecked from India, these poems continue an ongoing improvisation on forms utilizing remembered ancestral rhythms, taals, taans and raagic modes. The title of the book is from a tribute to the late sitar maestro, Pandit Ravi Shankar.

 

Monsoon on the Fingers of God

by Sasenarine Persaud

Mawenzi House, July 2018 (ISBN 9781988449319)