Prageeta Sharma

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Prageeta Sharma


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Framingham, Massachusetts, The United States
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Poet Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her parents emigrated from India in 1969, and Sharma was raised a Hindu. She has acknowledged the influence of her parents’ religion on her poetry: “I was taught to honor knowledge and books like a religion and so for me poetry keeps this relationship close, true, active,” she told the journal Willow Springs.

Sharma attended Simon’s Rock College of Bard as an undergraduate and earned her MFA from Brown University and an MA in media studies from The New School.

Her collections of poetry include Bliss to Fill (2000), The Opening Question (2004), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Infamous Landscapes (2007), and Undergloom (2013). Sharma has spoken of her work in terms of thought
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Average rating: 4.13 · 241 ratings · 37 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
Grief Sequence

4.18 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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The Opening Question

3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Infamous Landscapes

3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Undergloom

4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013
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Bliss to Fill

3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Willow Springs 67

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Onement Won

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Clockhouse

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“The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:
It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.”
Prageeta Sharma



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