Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology

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Item Code:	IDG369
Author:	Editedby Eunice De Souza
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Edition:	2005
ISBN:	0195658477
Pages:	96
Cover:	Paperback
Other Details	8.5" X 5.5"

Book Description

About the Book:

This collection of witty, ironic, poignant, and technically assured poems is an example of some of the best contemporary Indian poetry today. The intention in bringing together these poems was to represent the growing maturity evident in the themes and styles of the poetry of Indian women. While it acquaints the reader with the variety in each poet's work, the prime consideration of Nine Indian Women Poets is the intrinsic quality of the poems themselves-their subject, their language, and craftsmanship. The anthology covers nine Indian women poets writing in English, representing two generations of post-Independence poets. Included here, with brief biographical introductions, are Kamala Das, Mamta Kalia, Melanie Silgardo, Eunice de Souza, Imtiaz Dharker, Smita Agarwal, Sujata Bhatt, Charmayne D'Souza, and Tara Patel. This book contains a general introduction which provides an overview of the work of Indian women poets since 1000 BC, and of relevant anthologies and other critical works. It is a must for those interested in contemporary poetry, especially by Indian women writing in English.

About the Author:

Eunice de Souza retired as the Head of the Department of English, St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

Excerpts from Review:

'There are ten good reasons to buy this book. Nine of them are the poets of the title.... The tenth is Eunice de Souza's no-nonsense introduction...'

-The Pioneer

'...this anthology is marked by an admirable maturity of prose...'

-Outlook

'Eunice de Souza's anthology is a meticulously edited version of female voices that constitute a spectrum in relocating a new territory.'

-Hindustan Times

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION		1
KAMALA DAS		7
	From Summers in Calcutta
	An Introduction	10
	From The Descendants
	The Descendants	11
	Luminol	12
	The Doubt	12
	The Maggots	13
	Three P. M.	13
	The Joss-sticks at Cadell Road	14
	The Looking Glass	15
	From The Old Playhouse and Other Poems
	The Old Playhouse	15
	The Stone Age	16
MAMTA KALIA		18
	From Tribute to Papa and Other Poems
	Tribute to Papa	20
	Sheer Good Luck	21
	Compulsions	21
	Made for Each Other	22
	Sunday Song	22
	Brat	24
	Dubious Lovers	24
	Positive Thinking	25
	From Poems '78
	After Eight Years of Marriage	25
	From Hers
	Anonymous	26
MELANIE SILGARDO		27
	From Three Poets
	1956-1976 A Poem	29
	Stationary Stop	29
	Child	30
	For Father on the Shelf	31
	The Earthworm's Story	33
	From Skies of Design
	Do Not Tell the children	33
	Skies of Design	34
	Doris	34
	Cat	35
	Bird Broken	36
EUNICE DE SOUZA		37
	From Fix
	Catholic Mother	39
	Miss Louise	39
	For a Child, Not Clever	40
	Autobiographical	41
	From Women in Dutch Painting
	Pilgrim	42
	The Road	43
	From Ways of Belonging
	Bequest	43
	From Selected and New Poems
	Landscape	44
	Outside Jaisalmer	46
	It's Time to Find a Place	47
IMTIAZ DHARKER		48
	From Purdah
	Purdah I	50
	Battle-line	51
	From Postcards from god
	Words Find Mouths	53
	Living Space	54
	Eggplant	55
	Namesake	55
	8 January 1993	56
	The List	57
	Minority	58
SMITA AGARWAL		60
	From 'Glitch'
	The Lie of the Land: A Letter to Chatwin	62
	The Salesman	63
	The Planetoid	63
	Daywatch in the Scriptorium	64
	The Word-worker	65
	A Grass Widow's Prayer	65
	Mediatrix	66
	'Our foster-nurse of nature is repose'	67
	Discord	67
SUJATA BHATT		69
	From Brunizem
	The Peacock	73
	For Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907	74
	The Women of Leh are such-	75
	A Different History	75
	Something for Plato	76
	Iris	77
	From Monkey Shadows
	White Asparagus	78
	Kankaria Lake	79
CHARMAYNE D'SOUZA		82
	From A Spelling Guide to Woman
	When God First Made a Whore	84
	The White Line Down the Road to Minnesota	85
	I Would Like to Have a Movie Cowboy
	for a Husband	86
	Strange Bedfellows	86
	God's Will?	87
	Judith	88
TARA PATEL		89
	From Single Woman
	Woman	90
	Request	90
	Calangute Beach, Goa II	91
	In Bombay	92
	In a Working Women's Hostel	93
Index of First Line		95