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I was still unsure.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first-generation child of a South Asian immigrant family and a native of Framingham, Massachusetts, \u003cb\u003ePrageeta Sharma \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eBliss to Fill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Opening Question \u003c\/i\u003e(selected by Peter Gizzi for the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize), and \u003ci\u003eInfamous Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Grant. 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Having been twice widowed to cancer, Sharma questions the various relationships—familial, social, romantic, religious—that have shaped her identity.   Inspired by Barnett Newman's Onement series as well as many texts including the Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, Goethe's Faust, and Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, these poems explore the concept of oneness in Hinduism, Abstract Expressionism, and selfhood in an attempt at “onement with lyric certainty,” a way through ideas of prosody to a clearer sense of what is needed in freedom, suffering, and art-making. 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