<p>Sometimes the skillful poet plays the alchemist creating beauty from moments of pain and suffering. In her new collection <em>The Face I Desire</em> Renuka Raghavan dons her poetic wizard&rsquo;s robe and does exactly that bringing to the task a razor-sharp eye for detail and a profound sympathy for the human condition that never veers into sentimentality. Into her glowing crucible go the moments of suffering to which she bears witness&hellip;and out comes gold. &mdash; <strong>Charles Coe</strong> author of <em>Memento Mori</em></p>