# Edges of Ice

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**Author:** Manjushree S. Kumar
 **Pages:** 140 **Year of Publication:** 2014 **
Price:** Rs 200 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-091-8 (9789350450918)

_**About the Author**_
 Manjushree S. Kumar holds MA degrees in Psychology and English(
for which she was awarded the Gold Medal) and did her Ph.D. on Paul Scott’s novels
from JNV University, Jodhpur. Her dissertation was published by the University of
Michigan, USA. She has taught literature and language at colleges and universities
in India and was Guest Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, where
she taught courses on Shakespeare, creative writing and technical communication.
Her areas of interest include Shakespeare, Keats and Whitman. She writes, narrates
and presents television programmes for the Consortium for Educational Communication
on English studies at the Universities Multimedia Research Centre. Dr Kumar has 
collaborated on a ten-part TV film on Shakespeare’s tragedies as well. She has participated
in academic conferences within and outside of India and her papers have been published
in national and international journals. Writing poetry has been her chief vehicle
for self-expression. Her poems have appeared in _Temba Tupu! (Walking Naked): Africana
Women’s Poetic Self Portrait_, an anthology brought out by the Department of African-
American Studies, Emory University, and the National Library of Poetry, Maryland.

_**Teaser**_

_Sacred Starkness_

It was life surging through her.
 She grazed, contented – Her gaze on the gratifying
green. In a proximity that hurt Was the cage of bones? “Sans teeth, sans taste, 
sans eyes, Sans everything.” The spread was green, With little yellow mustard toppings.
Was it the endless moments, Or the few yards, That stood Between the two visages?
The green was there For the grazing white form, And a white, In the stark, bony 
emptiness.

_**Contents**_

_Introduction_ / 9
 _Preface_ / 13

CHAPTER I
 Edges of Ice / 15

CHAPTER II
 The Soul’s Ultimate / 47

CHAPTER III
 _Khayal_ Within / 79

CHAPTER IV
 Voices / 109