The poems in Before I Had the Word explore the divine in the secular, mundane world, often challenging the definition of holiness. Sahni uses her religious and cultural backgrounds--Sikhism and Judaism--as springboards from which to question notions of the ecstatic in nature, sexuality and the body.
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The poems in Before I Had the Word explore the divine in the secular, mundane world, often challenging the definition of holiness. Sahni uses her religious and cultural backgrounds--Sikhism and Judaism--as springboards from which to question notions of the ecstatic in nature, sexuality and the body.
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