Description
Thought provoking poems. Their radical aesthetics and mellow humanity – a combination so rare to find these days, amazes me. It is not what she says, but what is left unsaid, the thought in the fissures and gaps of her poetry that mesmerizes me, that captivates me with its subtle, sometimes wry humour, delicate irony.
Dr. Meena T Pillai
Director, School of English and Foreign Languages, University of Kerala
Anju George cleverly shifts from being the voice of her gender to daily intellectual reflections.
Anu Kalikal
Artist and Poet
Anju George’s poetry deals sensitively with relationships, love, loss, yearning… Her poems are suffused with both emotion and insight, and speak of one who feels intensely, and puts words to her feelings. Few works of poetry speak more directly to the experience of what it means to be a woman today in our country. This is a collection that will speak directly to the hearts of its readers.
Dr. Shashi Tharoor
Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, and Author
CONTENTS
9. Introduction – Jaydeep Sarangi
15. An ordinary day
16. Woes of a working mother
19. An epistle of friendship
20. Before you were born
23. A walk to remember
24. Auntie
27. Breast stories
28. Church and the sinner
31. Death and you
32. Desire
35. Equality
36. Blindness
39. Eve’s paradise
40. For all mothers to know
43. Mother, you win
44. Innocence
46. A Teacher’s prayer
48. To the student/party worker
51. Intellectual deliberations
52. May be we shouldn’t ask questions 54. My right and your right
57. Love story
62. First night
64. Receding horizons
68. One rupee
71. Requiem to a lit student’s dream
73. Mirror image ‘
74. Sleep is a blessing
76. The biography of an iron rod
79. To my daughter
82. Marriage
85. Under the green wood tree
86. Rules
89. Working mothers
92. Why can’t you pick me up every day?
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