Selected Poems by Das, Kamala -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Introduction Poems

From Summer in Calcutta (1965)

An Introduction The Dance of the Eunuchs Pigeons The Freaks Words In Love The Fear of the Year My Grandmother’s House A Relationship Radha Krishna The End of Spring Loud Posters Farewell to Bombay My Morning Tree Someone Else’s Song The Stranger and I A Hot Noon in Malabar The Sunshine Cat Forest Fire I Shall Some Day Summer in Calcutta Afterwards The Siesta The Testing of the Sirens With Its Quiet Tongue The Wild Bougainvillea

From The Descendants (1967)

The Suicide The Descendants Radha Palam Luminol Substitute Ferns The Maggots Annette The Doubt The Looking Glass Convicts Jaisurya Composition

From The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973)

The Old Playhouse Blood Nani The Inheritance Glass The Prisoner The Stone Age Gino

From Tonight, This Savage Rite (1979)

A Phantom Lotus The Caretakers Morning at Apollo Pier A Paper Moon Ghanashyam

From Collected Poems vol. I (1984)

Speech The Lunatic Asylum Fear The Sea at Galle Face Green After July Smoke in Colombo The Moon Requiem for a Son No Moon at My Village Home A Souvenir of Bone Woman without Her Shadow A Half-Day’s Bewitchment Death Is So Mediocre The Sensuous Woman Flotsam The Cart Horse Herons I Shall Not Forget Advice to Fellow-Swimmers

From the Indian Literary Review (vol. III, no. 2, April 1985; previously uncollected)

Cochin’s Jewish Quarter The New Sinhala Films Hairpins and Rubber-Bands

From The Best of Kamala Das (1991)

Mortal Love A Journey with No Return Delhi 1984 The Ferry Hour My Father’s Death Vrindavan The Anamalai Hills The Anamalai Poems

From Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (1996)

A Hand like a Bonsai Fathima Feline The Motif in the Mirror Too Late for Making Up The Bison at the Water’s Edge Larger than Life Was He A Feminist’s Lament Next to Indira Gandhi For Cleo Pascal Smudged Mirrors

From Kavya Bharati (No. 10, 1998)

A Divining Rod

From Kavya Bharati (No. 12, 2000)

Wild Honey The Mask The Maples Are Green Still The Separation I Dare Not Gaze Again A Moment’s Pain Scalpels Alien Territories

From Kavya Bharati (No. 15, 2003)

The Passing of a Typhoon The Circus

From ‘Personal Poetry’, Unpublished MS (2004–05)

At God’s Loom The Snake Shrine Gracious Allah

From Encountering Kamala (2007)

The Palmyra Tree Volcano A Kind of Fishing The River Saraswati Researchers Alzheimer’s Fame

From Closure (2009)

The Roosting Time Radha’s Dream A Tethered Goat Thrombosis Coral Snake Light a Bonfire I Shall Live On . . . March of the Mercenaries A Timepiece The Magnolia

Footnote

The Anamalai Poems

Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements Notes Follow Penguin Copyright

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