Interior Decoration: Poems by 54 Women from 10 Languages
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Edited by Ammu Joseph, Vasanth Kannabiran, Ritu Menon and Volga
Women Unlimited
334 pages, Rs 395
Many of India’s best-known women poets as well as some of its less familiar ones appear in this landmark volume. Stalwarts like Kamala Das and Gauri Deshpande find an echo in Mandakranta Sen and Malika Amar Sheikh. Amrita Bharati’s intensely solitary interior landscape is offset by the searing imagery of Salma, Savithri Rajeevan’s oblique subversion by Jameela Nishat’s overt dissent.
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