Author: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages:
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195628675
Description
Take a trip though the wonderful world of poetry and let Nissim Ezekiel, Vikram Seth, Dom Moraes, and other great poets mesmerize you through their poetic genius. Getready for a rare, rich and exclusive poetry. Each writers work is prefaced by an introduction, analysis, biographical information, and critical comments.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
ONE : NISSIM EZEKIEL
A Poem of Dedication
My Cat
For Love's Record
Case Study
Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
Paradise Flycatcher
Two Images
After Reading a Prediction
TWO : JAYANTA MAHAPATRA
A Rain of Rites
I Hear my Fingers Sadly Touching an Ivory Key
Hunger
Hands
The Moon Moments
A Kind of Happiness
The Door
The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore
The Captive Air of Chandipur-on-Sea
Of that Love
The Vase
Days
Waiting
THREE : A.K.RAMANUJAN
The Striders
Breaded Fish
Looking for a Cousin on Swing
Self-Portrait
Anxiety
Case History
Love Poem for a Wife. 2
The Hindoo : The Only Risk
Snakes and Ladders
On the Death of a Poem
Highway Stripped
Moulting
Chicago Zen
FOUR : ARUN KOLATKAR
Woman
Suicide of Rama
Irani Restaurant Bombay
Crabs
Biograph
From Jejuri
The Bus
Heart of Ruin
Chaitanya
A Low Temple
The Pattern
The Horseshoe Shrine
Manohar
Chaitanya
The Butterfly
A Scratch
Ajamil and the Tigers
Chaitanya
Between Jejuri and the Railway Station
The Railway Station
FIVE : KIKI N.DARUWALLA
Hawk
The King Speak to the Scribe
The Unrest of Desire
wolf
Fish are Speared by Night
Chinar
Night Fishing
SIX : DOM MORAES
Autobiography
Words to a Boy
Two from Israel
Prophet
Key
From Interludes
VII. Library
Sinbad
From Steles
I. The work works. The world doesn't
IV. What is this adrift from Chile
VI. On my stele, mark colours
VII. She in her youth arose
VIII. Time and the river, aflame
X. Floes creak out of the north
Future Plans
SEVEN : DILIP CHITRE
The Light of Birds Breaks the Lunatic's Sleep
From Travelling in a Cage
2. I came in the middle of my life to a
5. The door I was afraid to open
7. All I hear is the fraying of the wind
8. I woke up and looked at my empty white bed
19. Where can I hide now in this
21. O quick knives curving into the core
In Limbo
Pushing a Cart
Of Garlic and Such
The Felling of the Banyan Tree
Father Returning Home
Panhala
EIGHT : EUNICE DE SOUZA
Feeding the Poor at Christmas
Sweet Sixteen
Miss Louise
Forgive Me, Mother
For My Father, Dead Young
de Souza Prabhu
Women in Dutch Painting
She and I
Eunice
Advice to Women
For Rita's Daughter, Just Born
From Five London Pieces
III. Meeting Poets
NINE : ADIL JUSSAWALLA
Land's End
Evening on a Mountain
Halt X
Bats
From Missing Person
1.3 A______'s a giggle now
1.6 Black vamps break out of hell
1.7 In a brief clearing
1.9 He travels the way of devotion
1.13 Less time for kicks
II.1 No Satan
II.2 His hands were slavish
II.5 Few either/ors
Nine Poems on Arrival
Freedom Song
Connection
TEN : AGHA SHAHID ALI
Postcard from Kashmir
Snowmen
Cracked Portraits
The Dacca Gauzes
The Season of the Plains
The Previous Occupant
ELEVEN : VIKRAM SETH
Guest
The Humble Administrator's Garden
Evening Wheat
The Accountant's House
From an 'East is Red' Steamer
Ceasing Upon the Midnight
Unclaimed
From The Golden Gate
Soon
TWELVE : MANOHAR SHETTY
Fireflies
Foreshadows
Gifts
Wounds
Domestic Creatures
Bats
Departure
Moving Out
Select Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines