The Book

A narrative spanning four-and-a-half decades, Soni Somarajan’s “First Contact” is a memoir in verse – an illuminating arc of autobiographical imagery rendered in a voice fresh and transcending. From the earliest years to the present, across times and places lived in, the collection dwells on a riveting mosaic of joy, triumph, love, loss, anguish and angst, embodying the poet’s indomitable spirit in the face of tremendous odds.