Reviews

Black Candle: Poems about Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

lsparrow's review against another edition

3.0

although I enjoyed many of the poems and in many cases felt transported to those situations I left feeling a sense disconnectedness from the individuals in the poems. Although most of them were written in the first person and also many of the situations are those which I have seen first hand I felt as though I was merely observing this situation from a distance and not experiencing it.