Prageeta Sharma Biography
Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1972, shortly after her parents emigrated from India in 1969. She attended Simon’s Rock College of Bard for her undergraduate studies and received an M.F.A. in poetry from Brown University in 1995 and an M.A. in media studies from The New School in 2002.
She is the author of three collections of poetry, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007); The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), winner of the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize; and Bliss to Fill (Subpress Collective, 2000).
It was just a momentary untruth in my way,
bodies of the crowd blocked the big blue outside.
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There's a structure for idiocy—lamplight—
all over the nation; it's an illumination
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After being humiliated one continues the manuscript of identity.
Activities, diseases, doldrums, the crony affair after the situation,
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It was not a romantic sentiment, nor self-determined; rather, it was embarrassing.
My love of spearheading, from introvert to extrovert,
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more so than we did before, but now we know what to do with them.
We hang our troubles on them and wipe our shoes against them.
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