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Title: Black Candle: Poems About Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ISBN: 0-934971-75-7 Publisher: Calyx Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, provocative and flawed
Comment: Black Candle succeeds in its prose poems that a vignettes of the difficulties of life as a South Asian. The poems also work if one judges them as vignettes rather than poetry. Yoga Lessons is the strongest piece as poetry. Even as vignettes, however, the ubiquous use of first person, which works well for the poems in isolation, fails to work in the collection as the reader gets many "I's" of which some are the same and others not. The book does as excellent job of making the foreign culture and environment accessible to Americans.
This book reminds me most of Jana Harris' work where pioneer women's stories are made into poetry. If you enjoyed that, you'll surely enjoy this,
Rating: 5
Summary: A supremely impressive collection rich in metaphor.
Comment: Black Candle is a supremely impressive collection of poetry rich with metaphor and set on the Indian sub-continent. These poems portray moving, palpable portraits of women's lives that will strike a universal chord of recognition and appreciation with the western reader. The Room: I have walked this corridor so many times/I no longer notice/the gouged floorboards, the brown light/washing the peeling walls, the stale/childhood smell of curried cabbage.//I am looking for the door,/the one whose striated knob/matches perfectly the lines of my palm,/which opens without sound/into a room with milk-blue walls.//On the sill, a brass bowl/of gardenias in water. Peacocks/spread silk feathers against cushions./The white cockatoo on its stand/knows my name. Sun filters/through the sari of a woman/who rises toward me. I am caught/by the lines of her bones, the fine/lighted hairs on her held-out arm,/your eyes, mother, in her mouthless face.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good thing I joined Amnesty International
Comment: I found these poems to reveal a harsh beauty. If I joke that American women should read this before they complain it would be to ease the tension over severity with which women are treated in many of these Asian cultures. Divakaruni has revealed a piece of her soul and raised concerns over the mistreatment of women in Asia (as well as anywhere in the world for that matter) These poems are best read a couple at a time so one can absorb the passion and the reality of the situations described. A few of the poems in this collection moved me close to tears. Hopefully, a better day will dawn. I would like to apend my earlier comment that American women should read this by stating that all the men need to read it, too.
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Title: Leaving Yuba City: Poems by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ISBN: 0385488548 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ISBN: 0385482388 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Neela: Victory Song (Girls of Many Lands) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Troy Howell ISBN: 1584855215 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Vine of Desire: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ISBN: 038549730X Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ISBN: 0385497288 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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