About the Poet: Gopikrishnan kottoor (1956) is an award-winning poet. He attended an MFA poetry programme in the US, and was faculty in texas state university san marcos, us in 2000. He was visiting poet in augsburg university, f?rth, germany. His books of poems include father, wake us in passing (translated into german, and published as a laufschrift book edition), victoria terminus and the coloured yolk of love. His oeuvre includes poetry, plays, novels, translations and poetry criticism. He founded the poetry journal poetry chain. He lives in thiruvananthapuram, kerala.