The Astrologer's Sparrow: Poems

This volume exhibits the growth in the scope and in the depth of Ms. Naiks poetic vision over a period of more than three decades dominated by themes of love loss memory survival identity and alienation. --Carlo Coppola Professor Emeritus Modern Languages and Literatures Oakland University; Editor Emeritus Journal of South Asian Literature.Naiks poetic expressions of nature as well as of human experiences work extremely well within the intellectual and emotional poetic traditions of two worlds--India and the United States.-- Roshni Rustomji-Kerns Professor Emerita of India Studies and the Hutchins School of Interdisciplinary Studies Sonoma State University.Naiks is the language of courage: as one who left home and family in search of a wider view of the world. Hers is the language of the explorer. It is a rare-dear shape of language and acute emotion that readers are not likely to find elsewhere.-- Pamela Sutton MSJ MFA.