A story of The World before the Fence: Poems by Leeya Mehta. Published in 2020 by Finishing Line Press, P.O. Box 1626, Georgetown, Kentucky 40324. USA; website: www.finishinglinepress.com. Pages 35. Price US $14.99.
Leeya Mehta’s (pictured) A story of The World before the Fence is a slim volume of sensitive and thought-provoking poems. This is her second volume of verse, the first being The Towers of Silence. She has lived in Bombay, Japan and the USA from where her poems originate.
The first set of poems deal with the flight of the Parsis from Persia, to protect themselves and their religion, and......