On Minal K. Singh

Drawing upon a keen intellect, historic and mythic images, and from her own Indian heritage, Minal makes poems that address essential mysteries. What compels me is how she is able to shape an image that offers revelation, and yet she retains what's ineffable and unknowable. Like an Escher print, "dots" become "birds/with wing-length and body length." Singh's poetry appeals to aesthetic that ranges across artistic and scientific planes of existence, that straddles physical and metaphysical worlds. She is an emerging voice that will be heard for a long time.

—Martin Lammon, author of the collection of poems News from Where I Live, winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award. He is also editor of Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry.