{"product_id":"undergloom-9781934200674","title":"Undergloom","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from the descent into Hell in the opening passage of Homer's Iliad--\"and crowded brave souls into the undergloom\"--Prageeta Sharma's fourth collection chronicles personal and internal wars using the American frontier as a central metaphor to address questions of community and belonging, outsiderness, and the inevitability of a racialized self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Will You Let Go For Ransom?\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNO.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd so deep was the fall, what a drop; I had nicks on my knuckles.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is a passage of time for all of it to hold you, then you hold it, \u003cbr\u003eyou wring it by its neck, \u003cbr\u003eit's murderous and invisible--a darkling spot that grips.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd on some days, we would head to the bar--in the middle of the river, \u003cbr\u003ethe wail or the cries there found us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome colleagues had tears down each eye.\u003cbr\u003eSome other colleagues made them cry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe tried handing them words, but it all became inaccurate fast.\u003cbr\u003eI held my purse in my fist.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot sure if this was a place I could get mugged, \u003cbr\u003eBut I was reminded that it wasn't. I was still unsure.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first-generation child of a South Asian immigrant family and a native of Framingham, Massachusetts, \u003cb\u003ePrageeta Sharma \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eBliss to Fill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Opening Question \u003c\/i\u003e(selected by Peter Gizzi for the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize), and \u003ci\u003eInfamous Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Grant. Sharma is associate professor and director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAGEETA SHARMA is the author of \u003ci\u003eBliss to Fill\u003c\/i\u003e (Subpress Collective, 2000), \u003ci\u003eThe Opening Question\u003c\/i\u003e (Fence Books, 2004, winner of the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize) and \u003ci\u003eInfamous Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e (Fence Books, 2007). She is also the recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Grant. Sharma is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Montana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fence Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364219031826,"sku":"9781934200674","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dc793a71-d518-4b90-9476-30b662c4ccce.jpg?v=1728428869","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/undergloom-9781934200674","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}