Shakti's Words: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry Book

Introduction (ix), Himani Bannerji On seeing a painting of Salone Kissing the Head of St John (2), wife (3), upon hearing Beverly Glen Copeland (5), doing time (6), some kind of weapon (9), Paki Go Home (10), to Sylvia Plath (12), why do we need a metaphor (12), Apart-hate (13), in the beginning there was...(14), Arzina Burney Pleasant Heartbreak (16), Prairie Summer (17), Morogoro Camp (18), Lakshmi Gill Lyrics (20), At a Dinner Party (22), Confrontations (22), Frederitcton Highway Bridge (23), Light Canada (25), Sackville 1974 (25), Manna (26), Fort Beausejour (26), The Antique House (27), Revolution (30), Me (30), Coming Out of a Canadian Winter (31), From 'The Eternal Season' (31), Klee Symphony (32), Discarded Poems (33), Immigrant Always (33), Letter to a Prospective Immigrant (34), Beneath the Purple Lantern (35), Surjeet Kalsey Speaking to the Winds (38), ...And he Spoke (38), She and He - 2 (39), Migratory Birds (40), From 'Siddartha Does Penance Once Again' (41), Voices of the Dead (43), Transcending a Statue (44), I Want My Chaos Back (45), Breaking the Silence (46), Eclipse (48) Suniti Namjoshi In those Early Photographs (50), Confession (53), For the Student of Literature (53), In Her Fortieth Year (54), Archetypes (54), The Prosecution Rests (55), The Fur Seals are Shown on Television (56), The Beasts Came up to Me (57), From Snapshots of Caliban' (58), Caliban's Journal (60), Prospero (61), Disclaimer (61), Poem against Poets (62), Uma Parameswaran Born under one law (64), My sister writes (65), In Our Ancestral Home (66), early this morning (67), What kind of place (69), By dying sudden one night (71), The green gold of prairie fields (72), How I Arrived (73), I heard him come in the door (75), I wish I knew what to tell you, my daughters (78), The Interview (81), Vigilance (83) Tilottama Rajan Victims of the War (86) Nilambri Singh To Two Moral Selves...A Sonnet (90) Ramabai Espinet Lost Cargoes (92), Tamani: a cane-cutting woman (95), For Patricia Deanna (96), Jamila Ismail Herloined Letter (98), Lyrics (99), From 'Scared Texts' (99), Yasmin Ladha Two Friends (102), Haibun No 1 from Readerji Love Poems (104), Acknowledgements (105), About the Editors (107)