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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?