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Persaud's new collection celebrates the music in the seemingly mundane. The poems delve into ancestries and the movement and intertwining of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, cuisines, languages, loves and the passing of eras. Love and the exuberance in the world around--centered in the Florida land-(and sea-) scape--permeates this work.

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In this, his ninth book of poetry, Persaud, born in Guyana, continues his exploration of form, and improvisations on styles, rhythm/taal, mood and scope, as he looks to questions of identity and history.

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...

This collection is as much about love and people in and out of relationships as it is about origins and the process of estrangement. The lantana is a flower of South American origin, and the ixora of Asian origin. The lantana, a creeper that grows profusely, often engulfing other plants, provides a ready metaphor for the consciousness of the Americas overcoming that of India in the Americas--the mainstreaming and divesting of yoga from its Ind...

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.

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, comp...