Si,si, me gusta, says the poet in the opening poem and the flavor is caught. She speaking of paella, but her poetry too says yes, yes to life and possesses to a rare degree, that quality praised by Keats-gusta.
Kim Taplin (Review of memories of Argentina)
Ketaki Kushari Dyson is a writer of the Indian diaspora, who writes extensively in Bangla and English. She has maintained her close links with the literary life of her native city and is regarded as a significant Bengali writer of her generation. She has published some 30 titles in a diversity of genres.
As a bilingual writer in English and Tamil, Lakshmi Kannan combines certain unique resources and is at the crossroads of cultural and aesthetic interaction. Her forte has been the lyrical narrative, intensely alive and sensuous. Her sixteen books include three collections of poems, fiction in Tamil and Translations.
In many of the poems in the present collection, water as a life giving element becomes a large, ruling metaphor that touches the lives of men and women in surprising ways. Other poems take up life in its ephemeral but luminous moments hovering over the environment, man-woman, mores or beliefs that provoke questioning.
Introduction | ix |
Ketaki Kushari Dyson | |
Preface | 3 |
In lake Town, Calcutta, After Three Years | 5 |
A View from a Balcony in Lake Town, Calcutta: A Man, A Dog and Some Crows | 7 |
Back in Kidlington: A tale of Passion-Flowers and Passion Fruit | 9 |
On the Speed of Thing | 12 |
Joy | 18 |
Totally Multicultural | 23 |
Extra Virgin Olive Oil | 25 |
Dream of Butterfly | 28 |
Making Logos | 30 |
Making Sambar | 33 |
March magic, 2001 | 39 |
When Words Ride High | 43 |
Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 45 |
Apple Delirium | 47 |
Three Poems Exploring Themes of Inclusionality | 49 |
One: Giving Thanks, November 2001 | 49 |
Two: The Past's Particulars | 52 |
Three: In Memoriam Fort Stikine and Those who Died with it | 59 |
The Amaryllis | 68 |
Reflections on the Halves of Normality | 70 |
The Gods of Bastar | 78 |
Valediction, Forbidding Mourning | 80 |
Plans for a Funeral | 82 |
The Failure of Burial | 85 |
Spring Show, March 2003 | 87 |
The Bus is Moving | 92 |
Tell me Many things | 93 |
Uyghur Men and Maidens from Chinese Turkestan | 95 |
Alberta | 97 |
Sweet Dates from Iran | 101 |
Lakshmi Kannan | |
Thanks | 104 |
Creation | 107 |
Mirrored in the Waters | 108 |
For Arun | 109 |
Ekadanta | 110 |
Don't wash | 112 |
Conus Gloriamaris: The Song of the Seven Seas | 114 |
O, For Shame | 116 |
Meenakshi Parrot | 117 |
An Autopsy | 119 |
Family Tree | 120 |
The Salt in You, Mother | 121 |
A Seasweep | 123 |
Come, Mother | 125 |
Past Imperfect | 127 |
A River Remembers | 129 |
Ask for the Moon | 131 |
Good Blood/ Bad Blood | 134 |
High and Dry | 135 |
Ganga | 137 |
Tinctures | 139 |
Un-housed | 140 |
Braided Lives | 141 |
Wood Rose | 143 |
Subterranean Agents | 144 |
A Scented Burial | 145 |
A Seminar on Indian Women Poets | 147 |
Untimely Rain | 149 |
Crossing the River | 151 |
A Fine Day to Leave | 154 |
Mirrored in the Waters | 155 |
Waters | 157 |
That Friday | 159 |
Aarti | 161 |
Thirst | 163 |
On a Mission | 164 |
It was the Waters | 165 |
High Tide at Noon | 166 |
Tideway | 167 |
You Lingered | 169 |
Against time | 170 |
The Key Turns | 172 |
A Wrong Time for Gleaning | 174 |
The music, The Play | 176 |
Goodbye, Clotherhorse | 178 |
Let There be Rough Waters | 179 |
The Two Faces of Sunflower | 180 |
Chinar | 181 |
A Retreat | 182 |
Towards Visarjan | 183 |
Unquiet Waters | 184 |
A Poem | 186 |
More Answers | 187 |
Such a Sport | 188 |
Spilling Out in Chikpet | 190 |
No Collector's Item | 192 |
Visarjan | 193 |
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Si,si, me gusta, says the poet in the opening poem and the flavor is caught. She speaking of paella, but her poetry too says yes, yes to life and possesses to a rare degree, that quality praised by Keats-gusta.
Kim Taplin (Review of memories of Argentina)
Ketaki Kushari Dyson is a writer of the Indian diaspora, who writes extensively in Bangla and English. She has maintained her close links with the literary life of her native city and is regarded as a significant Bengali writer of her generation. She has published some 30 titles in a diversity of genres.
As a bilingual writer in English and Tamil, Lakshmi Kannan combines certain unique resources and is at the crossroads of cultural and aesthetic interaction. Her forte has been the lyrical narrative, intensely alive and sensuous. Her sixteen books include three collections of poems, fiction in Tamil and Translations.
In many of the poems in the present collection, water as a life giving element becomes a large, ruling metaphor that touches the lives of men and women in surprising ways. Other poems take up life in its ephemeral but luminous moments hovering over the environment, man-woman, mores or beliefs that provoke questioning.
Introduction | ix |
Ketaki Kushari Dyson | |
Preface | 3 |
In lake Town, Calcutta, After Three Years | 5 |
A View from a Balcony in Lake Town, Calcutta: A Man, A Dog and Some Crows | 7 |
Back in Kidlington: A tale of Passion-Flowers and Passion Fruit | 9 |
On the Speed of Thing | 12 |
Joy | 18 |
Totally Multicultural | 23 |
Extra Virgin Olive Oil | 25 |
Dream of Butterfly | 28 |
Making Logos | 30 |
Making Sambar | 33 |
March magic, 2001 | 39 |
When Words Ride High | 43 |
Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 45 |
Apple Delirium | 47 |
Three Poems Exploring Themes of Inclusionality | 49 |
One: Giving Thanks, November 2001 | 49 |
Two: The Past's Particulars | 52 |
Three: In Memoriam Fort Stikine and Those who Died with it | 59 |
The Amaryllis | 68 |
Reflections on the Halves of Normality | 70 |
The Gods of Bastar | 78 |
Valediction, Forbidding Mourning | 80 |
Plans for a Funeral | 82 |
The Failure of Burial | 85 |
Spring Show, March 2003 | 87 |
The Bus is Moving | 92 |
Tell me Many things | 93 |
Uyghur Men and Maidens from Chinese Turkestan | 95 |
Alberta | 97 |
Sweet Dates from Iran | 101 |
Lakshmi Kannan | |
Thanks | 104 |
Creation | 107 |
Mirrored in the Waters | 108 |
For Arun | 109 |
Ekadanta | 110 |
Don't wash | 112 |
Conus Gloriamaris: The Song of the Seven Seas | 114 |
O, For Shame | 116 |
Meenakshi Parrot | 117 |
An Autopsy | 119 |
Family Tree | 120 |
The Salt in You, Mother | 121 |
A Seasweep | 123 |
Come, Mother | 125 |
Past Imperfect | 127 |
A River Remembers | 129 |
Ask for the Moon | 131 |
Good Blood/ Bad Blood | 134 |
High and Dry | 135 |
Ganga | 137 |
Tinctures | 139 |
Un-housed | 140 |
Braided Lives | 141 |
Wood Rose | 143 |
Subterranean Agents | 144 |
A Scented Burial | 145 |
A Seminar on Indian Women Poets | 147 |
Untimely Rain | 149 |
Crossing the River | 151 |
A Fine Day to Leave | 154 |
Mirrored in the Waters | 155 |
Waters | 157 |
That Friday | 159 |
Aarti | 161 |
Thirst | 163 |
On a Mission | 164 |
It was the Waters | 165 |
High Tide at Noon | 166 |
Tideway | 167 |
You Lingered | 169 |
Against time | 170 |
The Key Turns | 172 |
A Wrong Time for Gleaning | 174 |
The music, The Play | 176 |
Goodbye, Clotherhorse | 178 |
Let There be Rough Waters | 179 |
The Two Faces of Sunflower | 180 |
Chinar | 181 |
A Retreat | 182 |
Towards Visarjan | 183 |
Unquiet Waters | 184 |
A Poem | 186 |
More Answers | 187 |
Such a Sport | 188 |
Spilling Out in Chikpet | 190 |
No Collector's Item | 192 |
Visarjan | 193 |
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