Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter
Mrs. Dutta, the aging Indian grandmother from Calcutta tries to find her place in her son's home in Sunnyvale.
The Intelligence of Wild Things
Didi attempts to reconnect-physically and emotionally-with her brother since they immigrated separately to America on a boat.
The Lives of Strangers
Leela visits India for the first time hoping to uncover the secrets of her own soul.
The Love of a Good Man
Monisha must decide whether or not to let her estranged father meet his only grandson.
What the Body Knows
Aparna's near-death illness triggers unknown, powerful feelings within her.
The Forgotten Children
Didi, the abused child, is torn by her conflicting family loyalties.
The Blooming Season for Cacti
Mira discovers that the face of love is not what she had expected it to be.
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Ruchira heads into her marriage supplied with secret knowledge about her husband.
The Names of Stars in Bengali
Khuku tries to recapture her own youth in India by bringing her young sons to the village in which she was raised.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Author of "The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Flavius and Marullus
Tribunes who wish to protect the plebeians from Caesar's tyranny; they break up a crowd of commoners waiting to witness Caesar's triumph and are "put to silence" during the feast of Lupercal for removing ornaments from Caesar's statues.
Julius Caesar
A successful military leader who wants the crown of Rome. Unfortunately, he is not the man he used to be and is imperious, easily flattered, and overly ambitious. He is assassinated midway through the play; later, his spirit appears to Brutus at Sardis an
Casca
Witness to Caesar's attempts to manipulate the people of Rome into offering him the crown, he reports the failure to Brutus and Cassius. He joins the conspiracy the night before the assassination and is the first conspirator to stab Caesar.
Calphurnia
The wife of Julius Caesar; she urges him to stay at home on the day of the assassination because of the unnatural events of the previous night as well her prophetic dream in which Caesar's body is a fountain of blood.
Mark Antony
He appears first as a confidant and a devoted follower of Caesar, and he offers Caesar a crown during the feast of Lupercal. He has a reputation for sensuous living, but he is also militarily accomplished, politically shrewd, and skilled at oration. He is
A soothsayer
He warns Caesar during the celebration of the feast of Lupercal to "beware the ides of March." He again warns Caesar as he enters the Senate House.
Marcus Brutus
A praetor; that is, a judicial magistrate of Rome. He is widely admired for his noble nature. He joins the conspiracy because he fears that Caesar will become a tyrant, but his idealism causes him to make several poor judgements and impedes his ability to
Cassius
The brother-in-law of Brutus and an acute judge of human nature, organizes the conspiracy against Caesar and recruits Brutus by passionate argument and by deviously placed, forged letters.
Cicero
A senator and a famous orator of Rome. He is calm and philosophical when he meets the excited Casca during the night of portentous tumult proceeding the day of the assassination. The triumvirs have him put to death.
Cinna
The conspirator who urges Cassius to bring "noble" Brutus into the conspiracy; he assists by placing some of Cassius' forged letters where Brutus will discover them.
Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache by Julianna Spahr
We come into the world.
We come into the world and there it is.
You Wish I were Fair by Alfonsina Storni
You wish I were dawn.
You wish I were seafoam.
Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera
Return by Octavio Paz
You spread out beneath my eyes,
a land of dunes--ocher, bright.
The Weary Circles by C�sar Vallejo
There are desires to return, to love, not to go away,
and there are desires to die, fought by two
opposite waters that will never become isthmus.
The Hunchback in the Park by Dylan Thomas
Like the park birds he came early
Like the water he sat down
The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,