Contents -- I -- Insignificant Beginnings -- Between Bogart and Amitabh Bachchan -- My Mother at JFK -- Working -- Love and Rummy -- Romance in Many Movements -- American Horror -- For Nancy Drew -- The Blessed -- Recipe for Discontent -- Inferior Goddess -- II -- Mantra for a New Bride -- Merle Oberon after the Accident -- Audrey Hepburn and the Westerns -- Blue -- Water and Wine -- Madame Destiny -- Knots -- Red Mantra -- Wilted -- III -- The Masala of the Afternoon -- Before Color -- Trademarks of Desire
That Shade of Green Known as BloomingIn the Kitchen -- Lemons: A Love Letter -- Sunlight and Chilies -- After Developing -- Summer Mantra -- Lost Tongue
Summary
Vandana Khanna is an instructor at the University of Southern California and the author of Train to Agra . She is the 2013 winner of the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize
