Read Gods R Us and Ghostmasters by Mani Rao .
Mani Rao (b. 1965, India) is the author of seven books of poetry, including Mani Rao: 100 Poems (Selected Poems 1985-2005), and Echolocation (2003). Her essays and poems have featured in Tinfish, Wasafiri, West Coast Line, Iowa Review, 91st Meridian, Fulcrum, Meanjin, Zoland Poetry, and anthologies by WW Norton, BloodAxe and Penguin. Translations of her poems have been published in seven languages. She was a visiting fellow at the Iowa International Writing Program in 2005 and 2009, and won the University of Iowa International Programs writing fellowship in 2006. Mani worked in the advertising and television field in India and Hong Kong for twenty years. Since 2004, she has been writing and studying, and living in USA, India and Hong Kong.
Mani is completing a translation of the Bhagavad Gītā via 'postmodern' poetics. Ghostmasters is a manuscript of poems about the gone present, and Gods R Us is a manuscript of poems drawn from Greek and Indian myths. More writing, links and multimedia work are on www.manirao.com