Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer [The Hottest Summer in Recorded

[The Hottest Summer in Recorded History] is an exercise in form equaling content: a poet's Holy Grail

and bowls strike after heavy strike in this terrific volume

Histories repeat themselves

In her first new poetry collection in over a decade

Dharma Rasa Brooke Lockyer [The Hottest Summer in RecordedDescription Rasa theory, part of Indian genre theory and Sanskritic poetics, describes an elaborate typology of nine essences or emotions, ranging from adbhuta (wonder) to raudra (fury) to karuna (sorrow) to santa (serentity). This first collection of poetry by Kuldip Gill is rich with these emotions. Gill, a Sikh woman who immigrated to Canada in 1939, creates poems that open different worlds as they inform and fascinate. This is a poetics that