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Diane Mehta

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Frankfurt , Germany

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Memoir

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Virginia Woolf, Dostoevsky, Beckett, Camus, Flaubert, Elizabeth Bishop ...more

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Diane Mehta is a poet and writer, born in Germany and raised in India and the U.S. She has an essay collection Happier Far (2025) and two poetry collections, Tiny Extravaganzas (2023) and Forest with Castanets (2019). She was a fellow at Civitella Ranieri and Yaddo, and has been the recipient of a Cafe Royal Foundation and the Peter Heinegg Foundation award. For three years, she has been poet in residence at the New Chamber Ballet in New York City.

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	Forest with Castanets 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiny Extravaganzas 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Easy Guide to Writing Poetry 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happier Far: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sparknotes Ultimate Style: How to Write Poetry 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literary Review: The Tides by The Literary Review, Kate Brody (Goodreads Author), Molly Jean Reid it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literary Review: Scenester by The Literary Review, Sejal Shah (Goodreads Author), Matthew Vollmer (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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In meditations on “fortunate times / and quicksand feelings,” Mehta, a poet in New York City, induces a staccato rhythm of poetic effusion, darting from insight to insight, with the graceful and erratic comportment of one “wandering by accident or design / a way to find your tongue.”

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