Blue Throat Dancers

This is the fifth anthology of original, contemporary poems-in English, Hindi, and Marathi-from the poets who are part of a collective called the Poetry of Diaspora in Silicon Valley. The Blue Throat Dancers is a reference to the Hindu God Shiva, the lord of dance and a part of the holy trinity who is responsible for creative destruction. He is also known as Neelkanth, the one with a blue throat. One of the legends about him is that he once saved the world at the time of great turmoil by dr...