Theologians, philosophers, social scientists, and astrologers often wonder whether we are born with our Kismet (destiny) or with Robert Frost\'s view, Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.
Her love of nature and faith in a supreme being intertwine in the poems like a colorful Persian rug..
Throughout the collection, she depicts the inner turmoil gently, without being harsh and chaotic.
Rather, Dipa Sarkar-dey simply invites us to discern the Kismet of teenagers in a war-stricken country, the Kismet of biases on skin colors, the Kismet of a disabled person, the Kismet of immigrants in a dreamland called America, and even the Kismet of a little bird.
The poems of this collection do not support any of the two perspectives.
Theologians, philosophers, social scientists, and astrologers often wonder whether we are born with our Kismet (destiny) or with Robert Frost\'s view, Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference
