At age eighteen, in Wandering With the Wind, Merin Elizabeth Kuruvilla emerges as a mellow poet, rather impersonally attached to the dramatic personae of her poems. She has moved on, in leaps and bounds. Earlier, in her poems she had picked up momentous events from world history to reflect upon. Now she refers to the alleys of the past, confronts the endless maze of mirrors, perceives a stroke of magic, is in search for the missing piece and looks through the ...