Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: Penguin/Viking
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 75
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0670058467
Description
In this new edition of Mappings, Vikram Seth’s first book of poems and one that has long been out of print, the reader is introduced to work written in the poet’s twenties, when he was a student in England and later, California. More immediate if less polished than his later work, these poems enchant and impress with their classical learning, wit, perceptiveness and lyricism-all facets of Vikram Seth’s now celebrated poetic achievement.
Contents
Panipat
Sea and Desert
A Winter Word
Departure Lounge
Quaking Bridge
Switching Off
Sonnet
Grand Canyon
To a Fellow-Traveller
Rakhi
Tomatoes
Home Thoughts from the Bay
Rain
From the Memoirs of Babur, First Moghul Emperor of Hindustan
To Manijeh
The Walkers
Time-Zones
After Three years
From Mount Tamalpais
Thoughts White Travelling at Night
Aubade
The Yellow Cricket
The Sultan’s Turret
At Evening
Moonless Night
Guest
The Balcony
Even Such
Close of Play
Last Night
Party for the Retirement of the Oldest-Serving British Museum Reading Room Book Attendant
Dubious
Bagatelles
The Tale of Melon City
Six Octets
Distressful Homonyms
Progress Report
Point Reyes
Sleep and Death
Mappings
Moths
Divali
A Morning Walk
Stump