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Sweta Srivastava Vikram (Author), Ellen Goldstein (Foreword)
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August 13, 2010 World Voices
About the Author
Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer and marketing professional living in New York City. She is the author of Because All Is Not Lost from Modern History Press and the co-author of Whispering Woes of Ganges & Zambezi (Cyberwit 2010). Her work has appeared in six countries across three continents. Sweta has held recent artist residencies and workshops in Portugal, Ireland, and several within USA. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

"In this innovative series, Sweta Srivastava Vikram re-appropriates color. Cultures and mythologies collide along the way, and the result is a chapbook that feels like a quest. In the end, the colors are a map to identity. The child's pink tonsils or the bride's red sari are not symbols, but rather mile markers. Like Vikram's poems, they lead toward understanding"
--Erica Wright, Senior Poetry Editor, Guernica

About the Chapbook
The book delves into the implication and philosophy of colors from a Hindu woman's point of view, from birth until death. The color she adorns herself with almost depicts the story of her life. Expressed through different poetic and verbal forms, each color in the book has its own tone and is specific to different age groups.

Learn more at www.SwetaVikram.com

From the World Voices Series at Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com

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  • Paperback: 34 pages
  • Publisher: Modern History Press (August 13, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1615990348
  • ISBN-13: 978-1615990344
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 9.2 x 0.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,643,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Charming and evocative, November 8, 2010
This review is from: Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors (World Voices) (Paperback)
This slim chapbook is a quick bite. Poems appear and disappear in the blink of an eye, but linger in consciousness longer than you might think they would. The use of colors is fascinating to the desi mind; we, as one poem remarks, "exist in a hue of experiences."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good things come in small packages, January 7, 2011
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Another wonderful collection of poems by Sweta. The author brilliantly takes the reader through the life of an Asian woman. I do not have any background in writing or poetry. I enjoy reading good books though and highly recommend this amazing chapbook for one and all. A fantastic read for sure.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The story of colour, November 8, 2010
This review is from: Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors (World Voices) (Paperback)
Sweta Srivastava Vikram has had another of her poetry collection published recently called Kaleidoscope An Asian Journey of Colours. The Chapbook is made special by the amazing idea behind the poems. Sweta tells the reader the story of color that has the pleasure and pain of growing up, of love and of desire and also of the death of these trancient phases, gradually like a raisin but even in death life has a colour. Sweta's verses lure the readers into the mythical world of Gods and Godesses and the birth of the color in the begining of the book.

'Few suns ago, Latin, the goblet of romantic lexis created

a recipe for color and poured it into verbal-moulds

so the echo could traverse the human orifice, the Ganges' and

Then slowly the poems take a life of their own and although the words are still sweet, the images and metaphors innocent, a sense of forboding looms.

My marigold heart, a few kisses old,

echoes the thunder and confesses

to the transient spell of beauty, tulips -

"Me knows, he wasn't a blunder."

Each color tells a different story within the story of the extraordinary life of an Asian Woman. Red and yellow tells of puberty and wedding, pink of innocent virginity, brown of chocolate of desire, blue when the rocks take her down and

'A smile adorns my visage, an embalmed cadaver rotting

from the inside. Societal worms laying maggots in my soul

and gnawing on them until I relinquish all desire.

I am sixty, not dead; not beige, color me red.'

The most outstanding of all the poems in the boook is 'Reflecting on Iridescence in Mama's Wardrobe'

It has the gaity of a toddler and frivolousness of innocence, same in youth and same in death. The last para sums it all up quiet aptly when the author says she hid behind mother's black saree and 'I'm ready for the next destination' as in life we come from our mother's womb so in death we go back to where we came from and 'Shades halt narration.'

Sweta has woven such a spell with her word usage and the symbolisms that the most complex becomes the simplest of all, just as all colors when mixed, end up being just black. The end that Sweta narrates is not gloomy but something mysterious where words fail to convey meaning.

A fantastic read for sure for the lovers of poetry.

Smita Singh

VAANI Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors
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