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Mattress Makers

(June 2023)

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 Launch, Reading & Book Signing

Saturday, July 29, 2023, 6:00 PM

Barnes & Noble Bookstore

The Shoppes at Wiregrass

28152 Paseo Dr, Wesley Chapel

Florida, 335477

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062158504-0  

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Monsoon on the Fingers of God

(2018)

 

 

In this book—using the 2014 Scottish referendum to separate from the UK as a touchstone--Sasenarine Persaud 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.

 

 

“Sasenarine Persaud writes with eloquence, rhythm and musicality evident from the first page…this book is a thoughtful and deep meditation on identity and migrations…a voice of tranquility and unmistakable originality…[an] extraordinary collection of poems that demonstrate Monsoon on the Fingers of God.”

--Dr Vishnu Bishram, Indo-Caribbean Diaspora News   

 

 

 

Dharmic Arts and Humanities Award

Sasenarine received the 2018 Dharmic Arts and Humanities Award from the Hindu American Foundation for “significant contributions towards enlightening and educating others through many inspiring literary works of dharmic values and traditions.”