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Published works

Poetry

• Stone Roots (New Delhi, (1980)
• House of a Thousand Doors (1988)
• The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts (Short Work Series) (1989)
• Night-Scene: The Garden (Short Work Series) (1992)
• River and Bridge (1995/ 1996)
• Illiterate Heart (2002)
• Raw Silk (2004)
• Quickly Changing River ( 2008)

Poetry and essays

• The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (1996)
• Poetics of Dislocation (University of Michigan Press, 2009)

Autobiography

• Fault Lines (1993/new expanded edition 2003)

Novels

• Nampally Road (1991/2013)
• Manhattan Music (1997)

Criticism

• Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley (1989)
• The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism (1979)

Prefaces and introductory notes

• Foreword to Indian Love Poems (Everyman’s Library/Knopf, 2005)
• 'Buried Voices': Preface to Cast Me Out If You Will!: Stories and Memoir Pieces by Lalithambika Antherjanam (New York: Feminist Press, 1998)
• 'Bodily Inventions: A Note on the Poems' Guest Poetry Editor to 'The Body' -- Special Issue of The Asian Pacific American Journal vol.5 no.1, spring/summer 1996
• 'Translating Violence' Foreword to Blood into Ink, Twentieth Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War, eds. Miriam Cooke and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns ( Boulder: Westview Press, Spring 1994)
• Introduction to Truth Tales : Stories by Contemporary Indian Women Writers (New York: Feminist Press, Fall 1990) Editors Choice of Publishers Weekly, 1990

Edited works

• Indian Love Poems (2005)