Love's Permission (Calcutta: Writers Workshop. 1996) Author Blurb

Preface

Part I

The Quarrel | Everyone Can Use a Friend | Covenant of the Circumcision | When We Love and Triumph | Sexual Love | Dance of Siva | 'Suddenly Silence Became Rain' | You Are Someone's Thought | White Point of Light | You | The Day Grandfather Died | Song of the Courtesan | Moon Poem | Memory of a First Meeting | Song of Despair

Part II

Dassera, 1995 | Last Sunday | To the Sick, Medicine | We Have Spent Our Lives | My House | When He Walks Free | 16 October 1995: Mad Poem | 'There would be no Writing but for Love and the Sea' | Evening Song: 17 October 1995 | Ancestors | Love's Body II | Reading of Rumi

Part III

Small Poet | Four Poems of Sadness | Domestic Animals | Girl/Man | Your Dream | Ballad of the Cuckolded Husband | It is Payday | 9 November 1995 | For Three Days.... | 'Sunday' Afternoon | Dreams | Three Poems on the Fall | Darbar-e-Hussaini, Hyderabad | Him | Anais Nin Watches Uday Shankar Dance


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