A six-year resident of Bangalore, writer and photographer  Sheri Vandermolen  brings India into vibrant focus, with engaging imagery and sharp wit. The volume's 45 poems and bold companion pictures span experiences as commonplace as trips to the local city market and as distinct as a visit to Allahabad, for the 2013 Maha Kumbh Mela (considered the world's largest single-event gathering of humanity, with 30 million people in attendance on the most auspicious bathing day). Sensitive in veering away from cultural appropriation, this book instead looks to celebrate the strands of daily life in a city of nearly 10 million, evolving from poem one's surface observations, seen with the eyes, to the internal knowing of the final piece, felt in the mind and the heart. Dynamic and fresh, Jasmine Fractals  nimbly pivots through the jostling contrasts of urban India. Sheri Vandermolen is one of the very best editors this country has; her knowledge of, and love for, other cultures is compelling; her writing skills have been honed to a fine edge. — Dr. Charles Adès Fishman, Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor, State University of New York, and Poetry Editor, PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Education I am an admirer of Sheri Vandermolen's considerable talent as a poet. In my experience the best editors are those who also write themselves. Sheri's abilities — her creativity, respect for language, discipline, and dedication — are qualities she exhibits in Jasmine Fractals and all her editorial work. — Dr. Robert W. Hamblin, Professor Emeritus of English and Founding Director, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University The stories...relate to communication — the simple and elaborate ways we share our ideas and feelings,...in which abstract art blooms across boundaries of space and sensory perception. — Laura Garrison, Editor, Jersey Devil Press Perfect...the poetry is wonderful, as are the photographs. — Lisa Zaran, Editor, Contemporary American Voices Poetry...which uses an intriguing mixture of visuals and minimalism. — Ada Fetters, Editor, Commonline Journal There is a rawness...an internal conflict that pushes against the layer of description....A marvelous job! — Hera Naguib, Poetry Editor, Papercuts R. P. Blackmur once wrote an essay on Stevens and Aiken in which he stressed the acute compositional talent they share (very unlike Pound, Eliot). You too have a primary compositional gift — it is the density of observation. In your case, this arises from a steady voice — concrete, observational, suggestive, fluid. This means that you do not write individual poems, but long, linear series of poems, whether two in number or thirty: one steady voice continuing on. You are IN your poems, not in a confessional manner, but as a presence, at one with the subject of the narrative...the speaking becomes the subject. In this way with verse, the good, attentive reader is never disposed to pick out "favorites" for the sequence — the ongoing is all. — Dr. Jay Martin, leading literary critic ( Dictionary of Literary Biography ) and author of 35 works, including Conrad Aiken: A Life of His Art All 45 poems and select photos in this volume have earned individual recognition, with publication in Ashvamegh ,  Avis Magazine ,  Boloji ,  Cacti Fur ,  Camel Saloon ,  Cargo Literary ,  Clover ,  Commonline Journal ,  Contemporary American Voices ,  Contemporary Literary Review India ,  Corner Club Press ,  Corvus Review ,  Crack the Spine , Criterion ,  Earthen Lamp Journal ,  Foliate Oak ,  Fourth River ,  Homestead Review ,  Indian Review ,  Jersey Devil Press ,  Kritya Poetry Journal ,  Literary Nest ,  Mad Swirl , Morphrog ,  Muse India ,  On the Rusk ,  Orbis ,  Papercuts ,  Poetry Quarterly ,  Pudding Magazine ,  Shadows and Light , Shot Glass Journal , Still Point Arts Quarterly ,  Taj Mahal Review ,  Verse-Virtual , and  Wilderness House Literary Review . Sheri Vandermolen began writing poetry in 2013, and her verse has since achieved global critical acclaim, with publication in the United States, Canada, England, India, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia.   In 2016, she was a featured poet in Contemporary American Voices , coordinating the forum, and her work has now been showcased in multiple anthologies, including  Veils, Halos and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women (Kasva Press, 2016), Trickster's Treats volume four (Things in the Well, 2020, to benefit the Indigenous Literacy Foundation of Australia), and Poets Speaking to Poets: Echoes and Tributes (2021). A summa cum laude graduate with Phi Kappa Phi honors, she served as editor in chief of Time Being Books for over a decade, and her scholarly essays are comprised throughout the Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky series (louisdanielbrodsky.com/cp5.html).   She is an avid traveler with visits to 65 countries, and after her six-year residence in Bang