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Saris and a Single Malt is a moving collection of poems written by a daughter for and about her mother. The book spans the time from when the poet receives a phone call in New York City that her mother is in a hospital in New Delhi, to the time she carries out her mother's last rites. The poems chronicle the author's physical and emotional journey as she flies to India, tries to fight the inevitable, and succumbs to the grief of living in a motherless world. This collection will move you, astound you, and make you hug your loved ones.
"There are few books like Saris and a Single Malt in which the loss of a mother, a homeland, and the self come together in a sustained elegy."
--Justen Ahren, Director Noepe Center, Author of A Strange Catechism
"In life, as in poetry, one must come from the heart. Sweta Vikram has done both with touching eloquence. Her work resonates deeply within one's deepest emotional sacristy."
--Sharon Kapp, Owner & Founder, Houston Yoga & Ayurvedic Wellness Center
"Saris and a Single Malt is a fitting and delightful tribute of a writer daughter to her affectionate mother which goes deep into the minds of all children who love their moms."
--K. V. Dominic, English language poet, critic, short-story writer, and editor from Kerala, India
Sweta Srivastava Vikram, featured by Asian Fusion as "one of the most influential Asians of our time," is an award-winning writer, Pushcart Prize nominee, author of ten books, and a wellness practitioner. A graduate of Columbia University, Sweta performs her work, teaches creative writing workshops, and gives talks at universities and schools across the globe.
POE005060 POETRY / American / Asian American
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SARIS and a SINGLE MALT
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
From the World Voices Series
Modern History Press
Ann Arbor • London • Sydney
Saris and a Single Malt.
Copyright © 2016 by Sweta Srivastava Vikram.
All Rights Reserved.
ISBN 978-1-61599-294-2 paperback
ISBN 978-1-61599-295-9 eBook
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Vikram, Sweta Srivastava, 1975- author.
Title: Saris and a single malt / Sweta Srivastava Vikram.
Description: Ann Arbor, MI : Modern History Press, [2016] | Series: World voices series
Identifiers: LCCN 2016011526| ISBN 9781615992942 (softcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781615992959 (epub, PDF, Kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Mothers--Death--Poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3622.I493 A6 2016 | DDC 818/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011526
For Mummy—wherever you are, I am sure the place has good whisky and a beautiful collection of saris.
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
FLIGHT
Friday, May 30, 2014
Destination
JFK: Terminal 4 Airport Lounge
Wait for Me
Looking for Signs
Fifty Minutes from New Delhi
Serendipity
Indira Gandhi International Airport: New Delhi
FIRE
May 31, 2014
Why Didn’t You Wait for Me?
Crashing
It’s Not Easy
Noise
Conversations with Mumma
SARIS and a SINGLE MALT
Ode to Mumma
GRIEF
June 1, 2014
Does Grief Wear a Color?
I Write
Forever Courage, Beta
Namaste
Time Changes Us
The Final Note
Afterword
About the Author
Foreword
There are few books like Saris and a Single Malt in which the loss of a mother, a homeland, and the self come together in a sustained elegy. Traveling the arc of grief, Sweta Vikram’s collection begins with tragic news and continues from there, in real time, as she brings us along on her journey to India to her mother's cremation. Many poems about loss are written after an endured silence, when words just won't come, but in Saris and a Single Malt, Vikram sits us next to her on the long flight ‘home,’ and we hear her cry. We are with her as she is breaking. And we break. It is a privileged and painful journey. Raw and powerful.
Throughout, Vikram is courageous in allowing us to share the nakedness of her grief, the anger, and deception; even the surprise of laughter and joy. And having been privy to this, we feel better equipped to deal with our own grief. Saris and a Single Malt shows us how we survive. We are changed by grief. It isn't acceptance one finds, but something in us, which continues to burn on.
—Justen Ahren, Director Noepe Center,
Author of A Strange Catechism