Advance Praise for Ways of Being
Sharon Hashimoto
2022 Washington State Book Award Winner for More American
Sati Mookherjee’s lively word play questions our definitions, boundaries around spaces, and leads to fresh and original epiphanies…
Alice Derry
author of Asking and Sally Albiso Award Judge
A wonderful evocation of the sea, fresh and experimental use of language…the poems breathe.
Susan Landgraf
author of What We Bury Changes the Ground
Ways of Being exposes the spaces in which we ‘wait for something to begin or for something to end’ and evokes the hours, yearning and ‘stuttered rain’ that fill them. These are visceral, wonderful poems.
a “stunning first book” from poet Sati Mookherjee
Eye explores the exile of the poet’s grandfather from India to pre-World War II Europe, his interior voyage from grief to insight and the echoes of those journeys in the lives of his descendants.
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Robert McNamara
Author of Incomplete Strangers
“The eye is the first circle,” says Emerson in the epigraph to this stunning first book by Sati
Mookherjee, who in widening circles embraces continents and generations.
John Wilson
Author of Call This Room a Station
Mookherjee’s graceful collection vividly charts his journey through an alchemy of details in
which we see “ordinary things turned holy.”
Arlene Naganawa
Author of Private Graveyard
The poem cycle in Eye moves in exquisite orbits, beginning with the image of the eye, then
radiating out, rippling with worldly details, coalescing finally with the appearance of his
great-grandchildren, even one yet unconceived, continuing the circle.