The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets

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Book Specification

Item Code:	IDD658
Author:	Ed. By. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Publisher:	Oxford India Paperbacks
Language:	English
Edition:	2003
ISBN:	0195628675
Pages:	200
Cover:	Paperback
Other Details	8.5" X 5.5"
Weight	210 gm

Book Description

About the Book:

In this book, Mehrotra has put together an unusually sensitive selection of fine verse in English by some of his best contemporaries. Many of the poems chosen either present new facets of recognized faces, or deliberately differ from those repeatedly on offer in the more standard, mimic anthologies. An insightful and analytical commentary includes essential biographical information, and introduces each of the poets. Although brief, these introductory pieces are so well written as to be of interest in themselves.

The poets who appear in this anthology are Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, A.K. Ramanujan, Arun Kolatkar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Dom Moraes, Dilip Chitre, Eunice de Souza, Adil Jussawalla, Agha Shahid Ali, Vikram Seth, and Manohar Shetty.

A must for those interested in poetry, this book will also be appreciated by those who would like to know more about the poetic usage of English in contemporary India.

About the Author:

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is a well-known poet, translator and critic-historian.

Excerpts from Reviews:

' the lengthy but absorbing introduction manifests a learned mind who's done enough spadework to undertake such a venture '

-Economic Times

'[Mehrotra's] brilliant introduction and notes on individual poets convey to us the complexities of their careers and imaginations, and give us a sense of a tradition of Indian verse in English '

-Times Literary Supplement

Preface

I could not have edited this anthology without the co-operation of its poets. They sent me such books of theirs as I did not possess, and made available their scattered prose writting and interview: my files are thick with newspaper clippings offerprits, photocopies. These became the basis of the indrouctiory notes in which, as far as possible, I try and describe the work of each poet in his own words. The criticism of Indian poety in English that has come out of our universities' English Department is both voluminous and of inferior quality, and is best left alone.

The footnotes and select bibliography, however, do not indicate some other debts: to Madhusudan Parsad, for the loan of two book; to Vandana, my wife, for her patience; to my editors and printer for their editorial care; and to Sara Rai and Smita Aggarwal for offering help when I needed it most.

ARIVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA

Contents

	PREFACE	xiii
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xv
	INTRODUCTION	1
	NISSIM EZEKIEL	9
	A Poem of Dedication	13
	My Cat	14
	For Love's Record	14
	Case Study	15
	Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher	16
	Paradise Flycatcher	17
	Two Images	18
	After Reading a Prediction	18
	JAYANTA MAHAPATRA	20
	A Rain of Rites	23
	I Hear My Fingers Sadly Touching an Ivory Key	23
	Hunger	24
	Hands	24
	The Moon Moments	25
	A Kind of Happiness	26
	The Door	27
	The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore	27
	The Captive Air of Chandipur-on-Sea	29
	Of that Love	29
	The Vase	30
	Days	31
	Waiting	32
	A.K. RAMANUJAN	34
	The Striders	38
	Breaded Fish	38
	Looking for a Cousin on a Swing	39
	Self-Portrait	40
	Anxiety	40
	Case History	40
	Love Poem for a Wife.	41
	The Hindoo: the Only Risk	44
	Snakes and Ladders	44
	On the Death of a Poem	45
	Highway Stripper	45
	Moulting	49
	Chicago Zen	49
	ARUN KOLATKAR	52
	Woman	56
	Suicide of Rama	56
	Irani Restaurant Bombay	57
	Crabs	58
	Biograph	60
	From Jejuri
	The Bus	62
	Heart of Ruin	63
	Chaitanya	64
	A Low Temple	64
	The Pattern	65
	The Househoe Shrine	65
	Manohar	66
	Chaitanya	66
	The Butterfly	66
	A Scratch	67
	Ajamil and the Tigers	68
	Chaitanya	70
	Between Jejuri and the Railway Station	71
	The Railway Station	72
	KEKI N. DARUWALLA	76
	Hawk	80
	The King Speaks to the Scribe	82
	The Unrest of Desire	84
	Wolf	85
	Fish are Speared by Night	86
	Chinar	87
	Night Fishing	87
	DOM MORAES	88
	Autobiography	92
	Words to a Boy	93
	Two from Israel	93
	Prophet	96
	Key	96
	From Interludes
	VII. Library	97
	Sinbad	98
	From Steles
I.	The word works. The world doesn't	98
II.	What is this adrift from Chile	99
III.	On my stele, mark colours	100
IV.	She in her youth arose	100
V.	Time and the river, aflame	101
VI.	Floes creak out of the north	101
	Future Plans	102
	DILIP CHITRE	103
	The Light of Birds Breaks the Lunatic's Sleep	106
	From Travelling in a Cage
2	I Came in the middle of my life to a	106
3	The door I was afraid to open	107
4	All I hear is the fraying of the wind	108
5	I woke up and looked at my empty white bed	108
6	Where can I hide now in this	109
7	O quick knives curving into the core	109
	In Limbo	110
	Pushing a Cart	110
	Of Garlic and Such	111
	The Felling of the Banyan Tree	111
	Father Returning Home	112
	Panhala	113
	EUNICE DE SOUZA	114
	Feeding the Poor at Christmas	116
	Sweet Sixteen	116
	Miss Louise	117
	Forgive Me, Mother	118
	For My Father, Dead Young	118
	de Souza Prabhu	119
	Women in Dutch Painting	119
	She and I	120
	Eunice	120
	Advice to Women	121
	For Rita's Daughter, Just Born	121
	From Five London Pieces
	III. Meeting Poets	122
	ADIL JUSSAWALLA	123
	Land's End	128
	Evening on a Mountain	129
	Halt X	129
	Bats	130
	From Missing Person
I.3	A _______'s a giggle now	131
I.6	Black vamps break out of hell	132
I.7	In a brief clearing	132
I.9	He travels the way of devotion	133
I.13	Less time for kicks	133
II.1	No Satan	134
II.2	His hands were slavish	134
II.5	Few either/ors	135
	Nine Poems on Arrival	136
	Freedom Song	137
	Connection	138
	AGHA SHAHID ALI	139
	Postcard from Kashmir	141
	Snowmen	141
	Cracked Portraits	142
	The Decca Gauzes	144
	The Season of the Plains	145
	The Previous Occupant	147
	VIKRAM SETH	148
	Guest	151
	The Humble Administrator's Garden	151
	Evening Wheat	152
	The Accountant's House	152
	From an 'East is Red' Steamer	153
	Ceasing Upon the Midnight	153
	Unclaimed	155
	From The Golden Gate	156
	Soon	160
	MANOHAR SHETTY	161
	Fireflies	163
	Foreshadows	163
	Gifts	164
	Wounds	164
	Domestic Creatures	166
	Bats	167
	Departures	168
	Moving Out	169
	SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	171
	INDEX OF TITLES	175
	INDEX OF FIRST LINES	179

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