# Twenty Odd Love Poems And Then Some

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**Author:** Anupama Mohan
 **Pages:** 52 **Price:** HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 **Year of
Publication:** 2008 **ISBN:** HB 978-81-8157-737-5 (9788181577375) FB 978-81-8157-
738-2 (9788181577382)

_**About the Author:**_
 Anupama Mohan was born and raised in New Delhi, where her
parents moved to from Kerala in the early 1970s. Her poems and short stories have
been published in newspapers and magazines. She is currently completing a Doctoral
degree in English at the University of Toronto. _ Twenty Odd Love Poems _ is her
first collection of poetry.

_**Teaser:**_

_ An old wife’s tale _

there is a story they say of an old man by the sea
 losing his life slow and steady
watching the deep blue ebb and throb and ebb and throb as the final sob of a life
led in sin and avarice and misery leaves him in a slow dawning wonderment of these
fishes that swim about and dance a play of chance a play of chance.

_**Contents:**_

I.
 Remind me of sins old / 11 An old wife’s tale / 12 Cinema love / 13 Make me /
15 A requiem: if we were any stranger / 16 The princess bride / 17 Humdrum blues/
18 I see a tremble in you / 20 Crazy poet, do you say / 21 Stay / 22

II.
 To my beloved on unjustified anger / 23 Of lazy afternoons and love bacchanal/
24 Today you are particularly pitiful / 26 I have a vague memory of your face like
an aubergine / 27 Sonata amorosa / 28 Funny / 30 Strangers in the rain / 31 _trumpet.
flourish.exuent._ / 32 A valediction, forbidding mourning / 33

III.
 Of mother / 34 Did you say goonite / 35 Metaphore / 36 On sitting on doorways/
37 On making love / 38 I am ten again / 39 The old man sings a song / 40 Swan song/
42 _and then some_ / 44 Serenity / 45 Nevertheless / 46 Toronto / 47 sing Icha. 
to Rasputin / 50 On Monet’s lilies / 52