Chiffon Saris
by Feroza Jussawalla

Professor of English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. The poems about living in the U.S. and Britain and about the U.S's immigration policies focus on the dillemma of whether it is better to be assimilated, as a Chiffon Sari or to remain indigenous like a "Dharmavaram, Conjeevaram." The poems also tell the story of the author's struggle with breast cancer. With lines drawn from Wordsworth, Keats and Yeats they lovingly and humorously recall the influence of British literature in writing about the New Mexican desert and about current events such as the death of Princess Diana and the cloning of Dolly, the Sheep. They tell the continued story of Parsi emigration. The cover artistically recreates the Rio Grande valley as a Chiffon
Sari flowing from Taos, along the Virgin of Chimayo to the Indian inhabitants embodied by a Ganesh.The Canadian edition can be ordered from treview@total.net and the beautiful, saricloth, hand bound Indian edition from Professor P. Lal at the Writer's Workshop Calcutta, at profsky@cal.vsnl.net.in.

(From the back cover) Cover by Jo-an Smith

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