Radha Says

Drunken Boat Books presents the inaugural title in its book series, Indian-American poet Reetika Vaziranis posthumous manuscript, Radha Says. A rising star and companion of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Vazirani was at the height of her poetic powers when she tragically ended her own life and the life of her young son, Jehan. She left behind a manuscript of poems sealed in an envelope, with which Leslie McGrath and Ravi Shankar worked to edit and to bring out her last poems. With a foreward by Kazim Ali and blurbs by Meena Alexander and Marilyn Hacker, Radha Says extends the poetic evolution of one of the most important Diasporic poets of her time. Published as a paperback original, Radha Says is intended for a wide general readership and will be out with Drunken Boat Books in January 2010.