# Grills and Other Poems

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**Author:** Mohan Ramanan
 **Pages:** 116 **Year of Publication:** 2014 **Price:**
Rs 250 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-075-8 (9789350450758)

_**About the Author**_
 Mohan Ramanan was born in Kolkata in 1949 and was educated
there, in Bangalore and in Chennai. He obtained a Ph.D. in modern poetry from the
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in 1978 and started teaching 
English at the University of Hyderabad the following year, where he continues to
be a professor. Professor Ramanan has published widely and on modern poetry in particular.
He has held fellowships at Amherst, Barcelona, Missouri and Oxford. This is his 
first collection of poetry, the result of thirty years of writing.

_**Teaser**_

_Grills_

From bedroom to kitchen, mother,
 was that horrible verandah, grilled like a prison-
gate, opening out to anarchy – Patta, I remember, kept banging his head on these
grills, when Patti lay dying; Patti survived but Patta did not – But those blank
spaces were a gothic terror. Do you not recall, Amma, and how you were there for
me, and I disappeared into the folds of your sari, and Appa came to announce that
Patta had passed on and I wept bitterly at those very grills, blessed with Patta’s
touch, in memory of Patti’s penultimate illness; And now she is gone too and Appa
and only you Amma remain – A reminder to me of life and death, of what has gone 
and of the sister who was then yet to be but now is, of the spouse and the kids 
who have followed when they too will bang their heads on these grills for what must
eventually inevitably follow.

_**Contents**_
 90 poems