Prageeta Sharma: Onement Won, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

Following her acclaimed Grief Sequence , Prageeta Sharma's newest collection, Onement Won, is at once a contemplation and a sharp critique. Having been twice widowed to cancer, Sharma questions the various relationships---familial, social, romantic, religious---that have shaped her identity.

Inspired by Barnett Newman's Onement series as well as many texts including the Upanishads , The Bhagavad Gita , Goethe's Faust , and Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, these poems explore the concept of oneness in Hinduism, Abstract Expressionism, and selfhood in an attempt at "onement with lyric certainty," a way through ideas of prosody to a clearer sense of what is needed in freedom, suffering, and art-making. The result is a stunning work that invokes ancient wisdom into an understanding of self-care that is fiercely anticolonial and anticapitalist, while holding space for suffering as a site of transformation for us individually and collectively.