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Indeed, there is much to fill our hearts with grief, post-covid: two wars, in Ukraine and the Middle East; a virus which just won't go away; people whose lives have been shattered by illness, politics and loneliness. These are the "thorns" of our existence, and they have pierced the hearts of humanity. The greatness of any garden is as weeds take over and plants die, what grows in its place is often new, beautiful and different. These are the "trellises" which continue to bloom and grow: friends; family; the connections which ultimately bind us to this world. TRELLISES AND THORNS does a superb job of exploring the grief and elegance in this world, both of which are inextricably bound.

This collection explores many subjects that demand looking after - family, artistic achievements including literature, the natural world, memories, history, and others that call for tending to. It also focuses on the complexities of this engagement - when easy, when difficult, when the subjects are shaded by emotion or the effects of time. Then too there is the looking after, as in afterwards, the reflection on things gone by. These poems cover a broad range - small personal experiences to the grander occasions of life, and the memories of life. They explore the multi-faceted subject of alert custodianship - the necessity of paying daily attention, while at the same time tending to the past already lived.

Beginning with its opening poem, "The Invention of Time," Ken Autrey's collection shows an attentiveness to the power of the past along with its riches and sorrows. The poems in Circulation address the writer's upbringing, the influence of his parents, and in turn his aging, with accompanying bafflements and fulfillments. The poems often range far away from the domestic front but just as often reveal the natural marvels of his own backyard. Some of them address the challenge of employing words to convey the depths of love and attachment that sustain us. Whether the topic is skating on a frozen pond, feeding piranhas in a zoo, his daughter's preparation for her wedding, or a visit to a junkyard with his father, events here unfold vividly, sometimes with an element of mystery, always with a sense of wonder.

"This book is a unique blend of poetry and prose written in a way that reflects the author's attempt to create an environment where his life experiences and education coexist. Where his personal feelings and life events, mathematics, physics, and art, come together to produce a book unlike any other. The book consists of 28 pieces and each one includes one or two paintings or photos, which reflect the desires, emotions, humor, and other strong feelings of the poem or story. This is a book where randomness and reason emerge as part of the world we leave in."SAMPLE POEM:ODE TO AN IDENTICAL TWINThe softer and the harderThe sensitive and the indifferentThe emotional and the reasonableThe calm and the upsetThe poet and the writerThe weaker and the strongerThe unlucky and the luckyI cheated you I took moreAnd you were left with lessYou were the weakerI was the strongerI cheated youBut you never complainedBecause you loved meEven a small uphill creates a noticeable windHow then can I not notice you?Fading face Eyes drifting into the darkness of futureCome find me you sayI will wait for you, you sayYou took the moon awayAnd now it's always dark at night A rainbow missing one color You touch me and I feel I exist I want you backJust for a secondA second Too much to ask?Parallel loveInfinite the distanceBut for one momentI wishYou cross to my universeAnd touch me Just for the smallest unit of time Whatever that isI dance for youA zeibekikoIn the space-time floorYou in some other universeSuspended in timeLooking at me through our photo togetherLaughing at my styleBecause I want to be funnyTo make you smileIn that parallel lineWhich will never meet my lineBut really who cares?We are very close parallelsWe live for ever Passing from universe to universeAnd are togetherIn every dream

The first anthology to examine the multiple facets of daughterhood in South Asian American families.The voices in this volume reveal how a Good Girl is trained to seamlessly blend professional success with the maintenance and reproduction of her family's cultural heritage. Her gratitude for her immigrant parents' sacrifices creates intense pressure to perform and embody the role of the "perfect daughter." Yet, the demand for such perfection can stifle desire, curb curiosity, and make it fraught for a Good Girl to construct her own identity in the face of stern parental opinion.Of course, this is not always the case. Certain stories in this collection uncover relationships between parents and daughters that are open and supportive while also being exacting. Many of the essays, however, dig into difficult truths about what it is to be a young woman in a world of overbearing cultural expectation.Good Girls Marry Doctors is filled with honest stories, difficult and joyous, heartbreaking and hilarious, from a diverse array of powerful women. These narratives combine to expose struggles that are too often hidden from the public eye, while reminding those going through similar experiences that they are heard, and they are not alone.Contributers: Ankita Rao, Ayesha Mattu, Fawzia Mirza, Hema Sarang-Sieminski, Jabeen Akhtar, Jyothi Natarajan, Leila Khan, Madiha Bhatti, Mathangi Subramanian, Meghna Chandra, Natasha Singh, Nayomi Munaweera, Neelanjana Banerjee, Phiroozeh Petigara, Piyali Bhattacharya, Rachna Khatau, Rajpreet Heir, Roksana Badruddoja, Sayantani DasGupta, SJ Sindu, Sona Charaipotra, Surya Kundu, Swati Khurana, Tanzila Ahmed, Tara Dorabji, Tarfia Faizullah, and Triveni Ghandi.This collection is filled with stories that put into words the feelings and struggles that isolate daughters of the diaspora. ... There is pain. There is trauma. There is also humor and hope. In short: there is truth. Every story, every word comes from a place of vulnerability and pain -- from a struggle toward self-understanding and self-acceptance. These are the voices of women who have fought to be themselves and who have chosen to come back to their pain in order to offer a helping hand to the young girls and women who still inhabit that painful space. --Karen Marrujo, Poetry International