Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer and the pain and ecstasy

and the pain and ecstasy that accompany a life lived authentically

and the newly urban

from one memory to another

He writes to the memory of Oka

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Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer and the pain and ecstasyDescription Rasa theory, part of Indian genre theory and Sanskritic poetics, describes an elaborate typology of nine essences or emotions, ranging from adbhuta (wonder) to raudra (fury) to karuna (sorrow) to santa (serentity). This first collection of poetry by Kuldip Gill is rich with these emotions. Gill, a Sikh woman who immigrated to Canada in 1939, creates poems that open different worlds as they inform and fascinate. This is a poetics that