Join us at the Whatcom Museum's Lightcatcher courtyard for an evening of poetry as Sati Mookherjee presents her debut collection, Eye.
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Eye is a brilliant first book from poet Sati Mookherjee exploring the exile of her 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 descendents.
“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."
—Robert McNamara, author of Incomplete Strangers
"Mookherjee’s graceful collection vividly charts his journey through an alchemy of details in which we see “ordinary things turned holy.”
—John Willson, author of Call This Room a Station
"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."
—Arlene Naganawa, author of Private Graveyard
Sati Mookherjee is a poet and lyricist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals and anthologies like Salamander, The Laurel Review, Comstock Review, Cream City Review, and Sonora Review. Her collaborations with contemporary classical composers have been performed or recorded by ensemble (The Esoterics, Contemporary Chambers and Players) and solo musicians (Hope Wechkin, Leaning Toward the Fiddler). Nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and recipient of an Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship Award, she lives in the Pacific Northwest.