A Flower's Envy

Annalisa Bahadur's debut volume of poetry, "A Flower's Envy," illuminates a gorgeous new voice on the landscape of international poetry. Bahadur's poems capture the full gamut of women's experiences as lovers, mothers, daughters, friends, and workers. With short, elegant stanzas and a lack of superfluous wordiness, Bahadur's simple and beautiful verses will speak to the heart of any poetry lover.

Bahadur's unique experiences growing up as a young woman in Guyana, a multicultural South American nation, as well as her years spent in India give "A Flower's Envy" a decidedly global perspective. Bahadur's tender tributes to her children and her vulnerable yet insightful observations of heartbreak and loss are particularly noteworthy for the sense of hope implicit in their sentiments.

In "A Flower's Envy," poetry aficionados will discover an easy-to-read, thought-provoking, and lyrical look at the lives of women, and in truth, the beauty and hope inherent in the universal human condition.