“Raga for the Fallen is a body-thundering celebration of our broken and beautiful lives full of myth and music. Vikas Menon reminds us how the smallest gesture—a father’s breath, a mother’s mispronounced word—can bloom into whole constellations of wonder. These poems are a beautiful example of the wild courage it takes to name what we love and what we’ve lost.”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“Vikas Menon’s Raga for the Fallen is a soulful remembrance of father, nation, and immigrant journey. I am enamored of these poems, of their braiding of languages, histories, and cultures. Menon’s craft riffles with imagery and diction, both quintessentially western and essentially desi. The result is a decades-spanning epic, a family history and great American novel written in verse that is as revelatory as it is riveting.”
Jaswinder Bolina
Raga for the Fallen
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