Author: Vinay Dharwadker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 265
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195639170
Description
This anthology, the first significant work of its kind contains some of the finest Indian poetry written in the twentieth century. This volume brings together 125 poets in English and English translation from 14 Indian languages.
The collection provides an overview of the major figures, forms, and movements in Indian poetry in the last one hundred years. The poets represented here include Tagore, Subramania Bharati, Nirala, G Shankara Kurup, Kaifi Azmi, Anuradha Mahapatra, Saleem Peeradina and Vikram Seth.
The volume also represents the best work of nearly 70 translators from various countries and contains an informative critical essay on the literary, historical and social context of modern Indian poetry as well as poems and the contributors.
As a work of craftsmanship and learning, this book will be source of pleasure, discovery and stimulation for general readers and scholars alike.
COMMENT:
a refreshing volume, contains a number of gems that are robed in the images of experience and thought - - The Hindustan Times
EDITORS:
Vinay Dharwadker, poet, translator and critic, teaches at the University of Oklahoma. He has also published a book of poems.
A K Ramanujan taught in various institution in India and the United States for forty years. He is an author of several books.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
ON READING A LOVE POEM
The Pact
This Night
On Reading a Love Poem
Mother
The Girl's Desire Moves Among Her Bangles
Flute-music
Women in Dutch Painting
Outside the Furnace
The Knot
Love Poem for a Wife
Woman, 2
A POND NAMED GANGA
Consolation to Empty Pitchers
The Forest of Yellow Bamboo Trees
From Hymns in Darkness
The Void
Woman
Man
The Wall
Tall Buildings
Monday
An October Morning
The Well
Drought
If Hot Flowers Come to the Street
Desert Landscape
A Pond Named Ganga
HOUSEHOLD FIRES
Spell
Two Women Knitting
Household Fires
To Mother
Salutations
This Man
Amalkanti
Compromise
Fear
Humiliation
Freak
Robinson Crusoe
The Buddha
My Father Travels
Girl in the Kitchen
Hot Noon in Malabar
To My Daughter
Her Garden
Avatars
Husband
Man : 1961
Genesis
Sisters
Family Pride
Time Wins
Forensic Medicine
Another Me
Birthmarks
THE MASTER CARPENTER
From Some People Laugh, some people Cry
The Roys
The Pleasure Dome
The Master Carpenter
WHAT IS WORTH KNOWING
Poem
What is worth Knowing?
Situation
The Creative Process
A Pair of Glasses
The Diamond of Character
Tamil
Our Hindi
Woman
The Naming of Things
The Yellow River
Old Leaves from the Chinese Earth
The Itch
I and 'I'
White Paper
Wind, 9
Forgive Me
On Bismillah Khan's Shehnai
Still Life
The Alphabet
THE DOE IN HEART
Green Snake
Snake
Dawn
In Camp
Fish
Santhal Poems, 1
A Page from the New Diary
Next Page
Whirlwind
National Bird
Face to Face
Frogs
The Black Panther
THE POSSESSED CITY
Sea Breeze, Bombay
Calcutta and I
Tryst
New Delhi, 1974
The City, Evening and an Old Man
Winding Sand
Jaisalmer
Speaking of Places
Almora Spring
On the Slope of this Hill
Passing through Rajasthan
Rice
Of Mohenjo Daro at Oxford
Fire
American Tourist
Days in New York
DO SOMETHING, BROTHER
Towards Delhi
Lifetime
Stone-masons, My Father, and Me
Babur
The Corpse
Come Back, Alexander
Hiroshima
A Doctor's Journal Entry for August 6, 1945
America, America
Burn this Sari
Purdah
I Never Saw you
Morsel
The Election
The Task
The Betrayal
Do Something, Brother
Salaam
Afterword : Modern Indian Poetry and its Context
Notes to the Poems
Suggestions for Further Reading
Select Notes on Poets and Translators
Index of Languages, Poets, and Translators
Copyright Statement