Pure Lizard

Overview

In this new collection of poetry that juxtaposes images such as organic sunflowers in Pennsylvania with sunflowers grown out of the toxic soil of Chernobyl, transformation and the natural world are central themes. Poems that respond to the work of composers Telemann, Bob Zieff, and Philip Glass are included, as is a poetic correspondence with the Welsh writer Gillian Clarke on the writer's sense of home and place.

Reviews

"A substantial collection of poems—one that allows us to travel, dream and learn, but one that ultimately moves us by the quietude of its stance and its impeccable articulation."  —The Times Literary Supplement on Point No Point

Author Biography

Sujata Bhatt is a graduate of the Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop and the award-winning author of several volumes of poetry, including A Colour of Solitude, Monkey Shadows, Point No Point, and The Stinking Rose.