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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

Distributed by Ingram (USA/CAN/AU), Bertrams Books (UK/EU)

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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