Summary

Windows to many worlds—big and small—are opened for the reader in this debut collection by a remarkably sensitive poet, who engages with life without fear or reserve. Shreya Banerjee transforms humdrum things—a dry leaf falling off a branch; a lazy Sunday morning—into compelling images and stories, just as effortlessly as she draws us into dark and difficult yet strangely healing places—the mind of a person sinking into depression; a grieving heart. And every once in a while, she brightens up the pages with delightful odes to life’s little miracles—sunshine; the sound of laughter; the magic of art.

Take Me to the Heart of Beauty is a book of extraordinary promise.