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    He Is Honey, Salt and the Most Perfect Grammar
    He Is Honey, Salt and the Most Perfect Grammar
    He Is Honey, Salt and the Most Perfect Grammar
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    He Is Honey, Salt and the Most Perfect Grammar

    By Kala Krishnan Ramesh

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    Murugan -- the younger son of Shiva and Parvathy, the younger brother of Ganesha -- is a tricky and temperamental god, but he is beloved of the poets. Fittingly then, Kala Krishnan Ramesh's contemporary bhakti poems in He Is Honey, Salt and the Most Perfect Grammar speak in the voices of many poets. We don't always know who they are, but as the poems unfold, one voice emerges above those of the rest. She is the god's favourite poet, a woman whose whole life revolves around him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins India
    Release dateJan 25, 2020
    ISBN9789353576158
    He Is Honey, Salt and the Most Perfect Grammar
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    Kala Krishnan Ramesh

    Kala lives and works in Bangalore, where all but five years of her life have been spent; she loves the city and thinks it allows her to be the poet she is. She teaches in an undergraduate course, has three children. Her second book of poetry Offer Him All Things Charred, Burned and Cindered was published in 2019.

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      For anyone in the throws of bhakti, this is a must read. The favorite poet of Guha writes with surrender, abandon, self-deprecation, and silliness, too. An endearing read for a Friday evening. Enjoy, Neelam

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