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Give us this Day a Feast of Flesh: poems / N.D. Rajkumar

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi : Navayana Publishing, 2024.Description: 112 P. ; 14cmISBN:
  • 9788189059330 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 894.811171 RAJ
Contents:
1. The family, to gain religious merit; 2. If anyone not our own kind ; 3. O you devil ; 4. Deeper than our bond ; 5. Hey, sister, you can't enter the house ; 6. Your god and mine; 7. When I remember ; 8. If I want to drink blood; 9. Dancing cobra eyes; 10. The frothing toddy-induced stupor; 11. Walking the empty streets ; 12. She satisfied my hunger; 13. As the kaniyan sings ; 14. She killed the snarling dogs ; 15. To take revenge on the great god ; 16. In the temple darkness ; 17. There is a great battle ; 18. Men flee in terror ; 19. Once upon a time ; 20. I am the child of Satan ; 21. The song that you hear ; 22. Our gods do not hide ; 23. Mayaandi comes ; 24. Their women sit on the swing and sing ; 25. My father with his powerful magic ; 26. When the pulayan turned into a dragon ; 27. "I too am a Siddha" ; 28. Right now, right this minute ; 29. My devil ; 30. We eat frogs to calm that wheezing breath ; 31. The day my body ; 32. Milk-heavy, she was hanging around ; 33. My poem burns wildly ; 34. As I drink the nectar like a butterfly ; 35. I am a lamb ; 36. When my morning bowl of old rice gruel ; 37. The fishmonger wading into the sea ; 38. The natural laws insist ; 39. Again and again we sweep with our hands ; 40. Nowadays, they sing like girls ; 41. He will sing and dance the Original Song ; 42. When the night falls ; 43. The maid like a young banana tre ; 44. O master, I cannot sleep ; 45. In that terrifying midnight ; 46. Om Shanti' 47. On Fridays at midnight ; 48. In ancient days we sang ; 49. I poured the local brew; 50. Thoughts tumbling ; 51. When my preferred moment of darkness comes ; 52. When the crow you drew on my chest ; 53. Son, that is not a country fit for humans ; 54. Paraman, the great god, kept calling out; Fingering the third eye ; Notes to the poems ; Afterword by ANUSHIYA RAMASWAMY; Where Reason is Dazzled and Magic Regins Supreme;
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1. The family, to gain religious merit;

2. If anyone not our own kind ;

3. O you devil ;

4. Deeper than our bond ;

5. Hey, sister, you can't enter the house ;

6. Your god and mine;

7. When I remember ;

8. If I want to drink blood;

9. Dancing cobra eyes;

10. The frothing toddy-induced stupor;

11. Walking the empty streets ;

12. She satisfied my hunger;

13. As the kaniyan sings ;

14. She killed the snarling dogs ;

15. To take revenge on the great god ;

16. In the temple darkness ;

17. There is a great battle ;

18. Men flee in terror ;

19. Once upon a time ;

20. I am the child of Satan ;

21. The song that you hear ;

22. Our gods do not hide ;

23. Mayaandi comes ;

24. Their women sit on the swing and sing ;

25. My father with his powerful magic ;

26. When the pulayan turned into a dragon ;

27. "I too am a Siddha" ;

28. Right now, right this minute ;

29. My devil ;

30. We eat frogs to calm that wheezing breath ;

31. The day my body ;

32. Milk-heavy, she was hanging around ;

33. My poem burns wildly ;

34. As I drink the nectar like a butterfly ;

35. I am a lamb ;

36. When my morning bowl of old rice gruel ;

37. The fishmonger wading into the sea ;

38. The natural laws insist ;

39. Again and again we sweep with our hands ;

40. Nowadays, they sing like girls ;

41. He will sing and dance the Original Song ;

42. When the night falls ;

43. The maid like a young banana tre ;

44. O master, I cannot sleep ;

45. In that terrifying midnight ;

46. Om Shanti'
47. On Fridays at midnight ;

48. In ancient days we sang ;

49. I poured the local brew;

50. Thoughts tumbling ;

51. When my preferred moment of darkness comes ;

52. When the crow you drew on my chest ;

53. Son, that is not a country fit for humans ;

54. Paraman, the great god, kept calling out;

Fingering the third eye ;
Notes to the poems ;

Afterword by ANUSHIYA RAMASWAMY;

Where Reason is Dazzled and Magic Regins Supreme;