Behind These Doors Chanting Hare Krishna
by Alice Miaolian Baskous

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This is the author’s third volume of collected poetry and falls under the category of religious verse, yet many poems talk about the fate of women in society and what happens when innocent girls fall by the wayside. The last narrative poem, entitled “The Monks of Saint Mark’s Street”, is actually inspired by Keats’ fragment by the name of “St. Mark’s Eve”, which he did not finish before his death. She wrote these poems with strong misgivings about the ethical state of societies today, superficial media culture and materialism, pornography, and female sexual harassment. Other poems are meant to praise God and Creation, and a number of them are about friendship.

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Alice M. Baskous is a student completing her senior year of work at Hunter College in Manhattan, which she thinks of as being a familiar and lovely island. Her aspiration is to teach French at the college level, and she loves reading books in foreign languages: in fact, thinks it is a crime not to be able to read in one. She is twenty-nine years old and single. She performs devotional service in her spare time, writes poetry, works on novels, has a strong predilection for feministic movements, and really chants Hare Krishna outside with her friends. She expects to produce a fantasy trilogy next, as well as a novella about the murder of one of her peers, another personal memoir inspired by a confluence of philosophies, and a work in French about the abduction of a minor.

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