An exploration of the compatibility of human desire with personal ethics is at the heart of INFAMOUS LANDSCAPES. In these poems Sharma turns away from Romanticism with a certain disconcerted, feminine shame, one that finds her peering through a gendered lens. The landscapes are urban and natural,\" inasmuch as both inhere in the human psyche as symbol and metaphor. An exploration of the compatibility of human desire with personal ethics is at the heart of INFAMOUS LANDSCAPES. In these poems Sharma turns away from Romanticism with a certain disconcerted, feminine shame, one that finds her peering through a gendered lens. The landscapes are urban and \"natural,\" inasmuch as both inhere in the human psyche as symbol and metaphor. \""Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. She is the author of BLISS TO FILL and THE OPENING QUESTION, which was selected for the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Series by Peter Gizzi. She is the director of the Creative Writing program at University of Montana in Missoula. | Infamous Landscapes, Paperback | Indigo Chapters