Sin of Semantics

She has everything going for her and her poetry—energy, flair, chutzpah. An entire culture raises its head in her poems.” Keki N. Daruwalla “The poems . . . are richly sensuous, evocative of scents, smells, textures, the visual and auditory delights of various seasons, and the particularities of place. . . . At the core of her poetry lies a strong, productive tension between two impulses: one, the need to immerse oneself in the immediacies of the world as experienced, and the other, the need to bear witness to these immediacies through speech and script.” Ranjit Hoskote “This book is a magical lamp. A journey through endless vistas of the human heart captured and reincarnated in poetic form. Mirroring creation. Blooming with insights from acute observation of the minute detail of everyday situations, emotions, in a world of colours, of brilliant life and multifaceted Black Death.” Claus Ankersen About the Author Saima Afreen is an award-winning poet who also works as a journalist with The New Indian Express . Her poems have appeared in several Indian and international journals, including Indian Literature , HCE Review , Barely South Review , The Bellingham Review , The Stillwater Review , The McNeese Review , The Nassau Review , The Oklahoma Review , Staghill Literary Journal , The Notre Dame Review , Honest Ulsterman , and Existere , among others. She received the Writer of the Year Award, 2016, from Nassau Community College (the State University of New York). She has been part of several literary festivals. In the autumn of 2017, she was awarded the Villa Sarkia Writers’ Residency (Finland). She’s also been awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship (2019) in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, United Kingdom.