"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Vivek Sharma is a Pushcart nominated poet, an engineer with a PhD, a career scientist and an Indian-American writer. His work is published or forthcoming in Poetry, Atlanta Review, The Cortland Review, Kartika Review, etc. He contributes columns and verses to Divya Himachal (Hindi newspaper in India) and his research is published in science journals. Vivek spend his childhood in Himachal Pradesh, undergraduate days in IIT Delhi, doctoral days in & around Georgia Tech, Atlanta and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, Cambridge (MA) (Dec, 2008)
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Book Review: White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
While White Tiger reveals the dark matter in the cosmos of Indian reality, its exposition and complexity requires understanding and humanity absent in this novel.
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Book Review: God Particles: Poems by Thomas Lux
Lux’s poems revel in absurdity, a mix of humor and satire, leaving the reader with a clearer idea and a sense of understanding and joy.
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Book Review: Cries in the Drizzle by Yu Hua
With diversions into Joyce-like references, or underplayed drama of a contemporary style, Yu Hua intermittently succeeds and fails in engaging my attention.
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Book Review: Time and Materials - Poems, 1997-2005 by Robert Haas
Though there are times I cannot appreciate the idea, the wordplay, the metaphor, I can still savor the humane moments and the montage of experience.
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Book Review: Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
These letters are unsurpassed in their importance to young poets.
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Whose Country Is This Anyway?
Set in Subway New York, where an African American woman shouts back at a White American, for mistreating a non-English speaking European guy. Based on true events.
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