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“Vandana Khanna’s sensual, evocative poems sweep the reader away on a journey of family, culture, and spirituality. In Train to Agra, Khanna’s deft language and bright, revelatory imagery bring both physical and emotional landscapes to life.This is a book of fevers and spices, longings and questions, motion and vision. Khanna’s gifts as a poet are many, and she uses them to cross borders and countries, to bring alive ‘The India of Postcards,’ to fill in ‘colors, the smells, to translate to English. /To translate into the present, into beautiful.’Vandana Khanna is not only a poet to watch; she is a poet to savor.”—Allison Joseph, author of In Every Seam and SoulTrain “Poised around a train ride to theTaj Mahal, Khanna’s poems track a layered and joyful personal journey amidst great fluctuations of our times—immigration, travel. I admire the vitality of her narrative space, movement between India and America, which she fills with ardent particulars: Hindi films, transcontinental plane trips, control towers, old rivers, gods, mantras, and myths.”—ReetikaVazirani, author of White Elephants Vandana Khanna was born in New Delhi, India, and has lived most of her life in the United States. She attended the University of Virginia and received her M.F.A. from Indiana University, where she was a recipient of theYellen Fellowship in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Callaloo, Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and the Crab Orchard Review, among others. She lives in Los Angeles, California. CRAB ORCHARD AWARD SERIES IN POETRY First Book Award Printed in the United States of America Cover photographs: Author’s collection Cover design: Erin Kirk New Southern Illinois University Press .. , - www.siu.edu/~siupress --- ...