About the Book : Mother Muse Quintet
Mother Muse Quintet is a memorial work of the imagination. Memory, like a veil
that is translucent and yet shaped by an ever-present fog that lifts and
settles, travels the path of multiple generations who appear as storytellers, as
companions, as mysterious versions of the self and, poignantly, as Mother
Muse—both birth mother and mother tongue. Mother Muse, a vanishing presence,
shapes the imagination of her son, like the heart beating or the wind dashing or
the wave cresting. Mother Muse becomes the breath, gentle or fierce, of the
poets own voice. He dreams and in dreaming, he writes