The Love Queen of Malabar Memoir of a Friendship With Kamala Das

includes index and biblioraphy

Cochin, Munnar, Kovalam, South India, 1995 The stranger and I .............3 An introduction .........10 Love in Another Country ..........17 Esoteric Exotica.............26 Lines addressed to a Devadesi...........42 2. Montreal, laurentian mountains, new york, 1995 Maple leaves read as drying blood.............51 I shall carry you with me.............61 Child bridge ..................75 Riding a tiger.......88 3. Delhi, Cochin, kovalam , 1997 Orbits of Friendship...........107 Life is but a dream .......120 The husband who neither Loved nor used her but was a ruthless watcher...........126 4. Cochin, calicut, malabar, 2000 Bliss in the scent of his perspiration................141 Beyond the outskirts of the City ............155 The fear of the Year ..............168 A pale green Pond .............177 5. The laurentians, montreal, 2000 Gift of a Man ..............189 The depth of Sequestered pools..............202 6. Cochin, 2003 A touch of Moonlight ...........209 You embrace me .........218 7. Cochin, 2004 Exhalations............229 A cloudburst of Intense fantasy ............237 8. Cochin, punnayurkula , 2005 That close to me ...............247 The place of Quiet Happiness.............257