Selected Poems (Calcutta: Writers Workshop. 1999) Author Blurb

Preface | Stone to Fruit | Hotel Golkonda | Yusuf in Memphis | Jonah and the Whale | The Home, the Friend & the World | Love's Permission | The Heart in Hiding | The Birdless Cage | Talking to the Djinns | Afterword

Stone to Fruit (1989)

Rabindranath in the Island of Birds | Calicut to Cannore in Summer | What Happens in China | For Safdar Hashmi | Thought Chameleon | Squirrel | Holi in Hyderabad | Cinderella | The Professor | Dina Convalesces | A Satanic Verse | Picture | Gloria Goes A-Tripping | Poem to South America | Tang Yin's 16th Century Chinese Painting | Poem | To Make a Picture of a Bird (Jacques Prevert) | Return From Dacca | Two Poems | A Tiger Story | Part II

Hotel Golkonda (1991)

Coffee 6/8/91 | Tea Things | "Golkonda" | Golconda/Golkonda! | Marco Polo's Tea-Party 3/9/91 | Re-Membering Madhubala | Two Ways of Lighting a Cigarette | Spinning Yarn | The Last Poem | Moon Over Hotel Golkonda | Srinu Leaves Hotel Golkonda: The Last Poem

Yusuf in Memphis (1991)

How The Revolution Was Won | Elegy for War | Canto: 27-9-89 | Glazier/Slayer of Holy Cow | Ginsberg and Orlovsky at Benares | At Salman Farsi's Tomb, Jerusalem | Paris | Bombay Central | The Train | My Father, 70, Speaks | My Mother's Death | Owl and Pussycat | Anabasis | Canto | The King of Abyssinia | Burak | "On Fatima"

Jonah and the Whale (1995)

It was My City | Moon Coin River | Manly Love | Yunus Pays a Flying Visit: 29 November 1992 | Broken Love | Curfew: A Ghazal | Kiss | 10 September 1995 | "If You Love Me / Be Wholly Yourself" | Sunday in September 1995

The Home, The Friend & The World (1995)

The House That Is Built | House-Warming | Furnishing | In a Clearing | Dream Poems | Brahmin Brahmin | The Tooth-Fairy | Fantasy | Welcome | Night Rain | Today Morning I Discovered

Love's Permission (1996)

Dance of Siva | "Suddenly Silence Became Rain" | White Point of Light | Moon Poem | When He Walks Free | Small Poet

The Heart in Hiding (1996)

For Sultan Padamsee | Words | Ganga-Jal | Krishna-Sudama | To an Open Door | Ghazal | Gentle Rain | Kishori Amonkar | When Will God and I Meet? | Two Poems on Illusion | Ode to the Great Mother | What If: A Mysterious Poem | Radha Sends Krishna Packing | Three Aspects of "Viraha Rasa" | Malavika Saukai Dances "Viraha" | Tea Ceremony at Tiananmen

The Birdless Cage (1997)

Ibadat | Sunset over Golconda | Jonah and the Whale | The Birdless Cage | Ghazal | Ghazal of Pain | The Japanese Geisha | Perception is Only an Accident | Eyes | And If I Came Searching | The Night is Far Gone | The Wedding Ring | In Memoriam

Talking to the Djinns (1997)

12/4/1996 | Epilogue


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