Fiction. Caribbean Studies. Asian American Studies. In this award-winning collection of stories, Sasenarine Persaud presents us with his unique vision of lives in North America and the Caribbean. The stories are probing, all threaded together by the ancestral India of the protagonist's imagination and a style inspired by ancient storytelling tradition. Here almost inscrutable demotic slang, once penetrated, reinforces Persaud's social commentary and nimbly pits self-ironizing postmodernism against the timeless values of narrative -- The Globe and Mail.

Canada Geese and Apple Chatney

Literature & Fiction

Persaud, Sasenarine

Contemporary

TSAR Publications

Poetry. This second book of poetry in Persaud's trilogy of poetry books establishes him, through Yogic Realism, as one of today's accomplished poetic voices. Persaud's poems, mainly set in Toronto and Miami, are like miniature raags, sensuous units of Indian music obeying conventions mysterious to western ears -- The Globe and Mail. **Call to check inventory before opening.

The Hungry Sailor

Poetry

This volume enriches Caribbean poetry by bringing it to new dimensions of imagery and philosophical tradition drawn from the Indian ancestry of the author. The imagery of cobra and Kundalini from Tantric Yoga mesh with a political and personal engagement with both Guyana and, more recently, Canada. This is a meeting of a thoroughly modern sensibility with the riches of an ancient tradition.

The Wintering Kundalini

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

This Indo-Caribbean and Indo-South American poet continues to explore and examine his Indian roots through language, ritual, and personal associations as a Canadian resident in Florida. The poems pay homage to writers V S Naipaul, Sam Selvon, and Peter Nazareth, and evoke calypso, reggae, Bollywood, taans, and Indian classical-ragic music as well as Indian festivals and "gods." Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies.

Mattress Makers

Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers

Poetry. From the very first piece in this collection, the title poem "In a Boston Night," Sasenarine Persaud signals a return to the passionate and sensuous that informed much of his earlier work. Persaud, the poet as craftsman, is ever present in this collection, using a complex series of personas and "voices" moving back and forth in time and place. Boston, the focal point of this collection, is like a needle hole through which the poet deftly threads his reflections about places, events, and histories: a conflict between Anglo- and Franco-Canadians at a Brookline art exhibition; Georgetown and Mumbai; Tampa and Toronto; the "Boston Tea Party" as a symbol of resistance to American English, subtly underlined by the description of a Walcott reading in an overflowing university hall. This is a fine, multilayered collection of poems by an important and accomplished contemporary poet.

In a Boston Night

Whether in the heart of downtown Toronto, a bookstore in Boston, the courtyard of the Taj Mahal--through the portals of cyberspace--on the banks of a Tampa river, or a journey through time to Georgetown, an old Caribbean colonial capital, love circumscribes everything. From Indo-Caribbean author, Sasenarine Persaud,Love in a Time of Technology is no wide-eyed outpouring; the poems probe and question concepts and beliefs, poke fun at age, companions taken for granted, and the realization that, like a mannequin in a Manhattan storefront, love is "faceless and, almost, raceless." If love circumscribes everything, these poems show that everything--economics, politics, ambitions and exiles--also circumscribes love.

Love in a Time of Technology

Poetry. Set against the backdrop of the 2014 Scottish referendum, MONSOON ON THE FINGERS OF GOD continues an ongoing exploration of forms and improvisation on styles, rhythm/taal, and raagic moods in an examination of identity, history and human migrations.

Monsoon on the Fingers of God

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