# Poems for Her

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**Author:** Kona Prakash Reddy
 **Pages:** 52 **Year of Publication:** 1999 **Price:**
HB Rs 80, FB Rs 60 **ISBN:** HB 81-7595-648-8 (8175956488) FB 81-7595-649-6 (8175956496)

**_About the Author:_**
 Kona Prakash Reddy grew up in Hyderabad, where he completed
his M. A. in English from the University of Hyderabad. He went on to attain his 
Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi, USA. For his thesis, he did a comparative
study of Chomsky, Wittgenstein and Derrida.

**_Teaser:_**

_The Dark and Me_

I was searching for the dark when I met St. John of the Cross. We shared the night
together — he and me — looking for the dark. I always feared the dark. I hated the
dark. There is something tremendously severe about her that men do not understand.
But the severity is only a mask on the face of the dark. I must blame my eyes for
the mistaken feelings regarding the dark. My eyes would like to bask in the things
of light. In short, they’re examining the world, these eyes of mine. The dark does
not take away the power of my eyes to visualize. The dark becomes me. She is one
with the being of my being. She prevents me from judging others. Her fluidity is
her only statement. I am a child of the dark. We are all children of the dark. Yet
we want to avoid her with all our might. It is her we’re running away from. We’re
terrified of her power, genius, madness and ecstasy. Our hands can never take her.
She is elusive like a black serpent in a coal-mine.

**_Contents:_**
 The Dark and Me / 9 Prisoner of Words / 10 I Think of You / 12 
Your Touch / 13 The Moon Is on Fire / 14 In Your Sickness / 15 Ma-ra / 16 Pedophiles/
18 Outsider / 19 Between Your Thighs / 20 Pasolini / 21 Once upon a Time Was a Hand/
23 A Vision / 24 It / 26 Kundalini / 27 Lines Composed in Naked Silence / 28 Waterfall/
29 If Today I Must Die / 30 Eyes / 31 The Music I Long to Hear / 34 Purple Veils/
Coffee Nights / 35 This Body / 37 For Whom Shall I Weep This Night / 38 Nothing /
40 Hands / 41 I Call That Love / 42 For the Unborn Child / 43 Possessed / 44 My 
Heart Today / 45 Like / 46 How / 47 I Made a Gesture / 48 Sad Is Beautiful / 49