Winter Blossoms

"Winter Blossoms" is a bouquet of poems that would touch every soul. With a voice that is tender and assertive, and clear as a bell, Mamata Misra calls us to interrogate human indignity, hostility, and domination and then she whispers in our ear: 'change, change, change.' She takes us gently by the hand and leads us to hope. "Winter Blossoms" is courageous and bold, not unlike the buds that dare to bloom in the dead of a freezing season. The truths in "Winter Blossoms" go beyond the limitations of a particular community and reach the universal.
-Shamita Das Dasgupta, co-founder of Manavi, Inc. and editor of "A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America" and "Body Evidence: Intimate Violence against South Asian Women in America."