Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer and the newly urban

and the newly urban

in addition

from one memory to another

these poems movingly depict rare moments of beauty in an otherwise harsh existence

Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer and the newly urbanDescription Rasa theory, part of Indian genre theory and Sanskritic poetics, describes an elaborate typology of nine essences or emotions, ranging from adbhuta (wonder) to raudra (fury) to karuna (sorrow) to santa (serentity). This first collection of poetry by Kuldip Gill is rich with these emotions. Gill, a Sikh woman who immigrated to Canada in 1939, creates poems that open different worlds as they inform and fascinate. This is a poetics that