False Offering -- Rita Mookerjee, Paperback Montrose When her husband of sixteen

When her husband of sixteen years abruptly leaves her for a younger woman

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False Offering -- Rita Mookerjee, Paperback Montrose When her husband of sixteenRita Mookerjee's False Offering, while providing a trenchant critique of the oppressiveness of "white space," is also glittery, culinary sumptuous, and scythe sharp. Shot through with equal parts "nectar and venom," Mookerjee's poems pirouette with muscular grace in a kaleidoscopic whirl of myth and alchemy, gods and feasts, rot and rose gold. False Offering is a feminist ledger of "battle armor meeting ballet." Like a medieval tapestry, it is piped