Short essays by women poets on mentoring women poets; includes poems by the subjects and authors.

A sacramental vision of the energy and agency of the divine in the world

Cosmic Affection is a collection of poems inspired by the unconventional youth along with unhindered ideas about closure. The poet calls herself an 'artistic chaos’ and her poetry helps her live upto that. She talks about her emotions as raw as they come and works towards spiking the lives of her readers with nothing but the truth. She uses imagery and attempts at painting a picture that may seem more honest than reality itself. Her work is inspired by the basic nature of human beings as she struggles with the notion of convenience in people’s lives. In the end it all comes down to the reader, as the poet requests all to practice self love and be forever grateful for the mere accessories of life.

In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay "Projective Verse" in which he proposed a poetry of "open field" composition-to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem. The poets and poetry that have followed in the wake of the "projectivist" movement-the Black Mountain group, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Language poets-have since been studied at length. But more often than not they have been studied through the lens of continental theory with the effect that these high.