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Chiffon Saris
by Feroza Jussawalla
Coach House Printing, Toronto, 2003
9781894770132

Feroza Jussawalla is currently a Professor of English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her poetry book is a “bold new contribution to American and postcolonial literature, and a moving witness to the continuing Parsi story of emigration.”
-Bapsi Sidhwa-

With telling detail and sharply ironic insights, these poems reveal the transitory immigrant sensibility of an Asian Indian woman living in the American southwest, immersed in the Spanish-speaking culture of the United States-Mexican border, and always aware of her exile Parsi antecedents from Persia to India 1200 years ago. Embodying the frustrations of immigration and assimilation, these poems are also about women’s issues, such as living with infertility and breast cancer. The harsh desert landscape and the inability of its creatures to survive are naturalistic metaphors for the author’s struggles.

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