FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 1997
Copyright © 1997 by Chitra Banerje Divakaruni
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“Growing Up in Darjeeling” has appeared in The Paterson Literary Review (1995).
“Blackout” has appeared in the anthology Blood Into Ink (Westview Press, 1995).
“Tiger Mask Ritual” has appeared in Chicago Review (1994).
“At the Sati Temple” has appeared in Ms. (1994).
“The Rat Trap” and “The Alley of Flowers” have both appeared in Calyx (1991 and 1994).
“To Mrinal Sen” has appeared in Berkeley Poets Co-op Magazine (1990).
“The Makers of Chili Paste” has appeared in Bottomfish (1991).
“Storm at Point Sur” has appeared in the Threepenny Review (1994).
“The Lost Love Words” has appeared in Folio (1994).
“The Tourists” has appeared in the anthology The House on Via Gombito (New Rivers Press, 1990).
“The Founding of Yuba City” and “Yuba City Wedding” both appeared in Living in America (Westview Press, 1994).
“Leaving Yuba City” has appeared in Our Feet Walk the Sky (Aunt Lute, 1993).
“Woman with Kite” has appeared in Hurricane Alice (1992).
“Indian Movie, New Jersey” has appeared in Indiana Review (1992).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956—
Leaving Yuba City: new and selected poems / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
p. cm.
I. Indic Americans—Poetry. 2. India—Poetry. I. Title.
PS3554.I86L43 1997
811′.54—dc2I 97-6308
CIP
eISBN: 978-0-307-47676-0
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